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EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. 



A. M. BROWN, Chairman. JOHN A. MYLER, Secretary. 
JOHN BEAN, Treasurer. 

JOHN S. SLAGLE, D. O'NEILL, 

A. L. PEARSON HUGH McNEILL, 

ROBERT RIDDELL, WM. McUREERY, 

Rev. E. R. DONEHOO, S. .L WAINWRIGHT, 

J* S. ATKINSON, JOSIAH KING, 

PETER CONNELLY. 






MUE sudden and disastrous flood of July 26th, 18*74, was 
an event of 3ucli thrilling interest and surpassing import- 
ance that, like the great fire of April, 1845, it forms an 
epoch in the history of Pittsburgh and Allegheny, never 
to be forgotten. 

Early on that Sabbath morning the rain commenced to fall 
copiously, and continued, with brief intervals, to do so until 
evening, causing the streams and ravines in the vicinity to 
swell with torrents of water. When the evening church bells 
rang out their inviting sounds, it was supposed that the rain 
clouds had emptied their contents, and the storm was ended. 
About nine o'clock the horizon was suddenly shrouded in the 
blackness of darkness. The rain descended in torrents, as if 
the very flood gates of heaven had been opened ; the lightnings 
flashed amidst deafening peals of thunder, imparting to the 
scene a dismal and terrific grandeur. Little streams which or- 
dinarily seemed like a silver cord, swelled into impetuous and 
mastering currents ; larger water courses became raging 
rivers, carrying destruction and death on every side ; the hill- 
sides gleamed with sheets of foaming water, like an agitated 
sea, as the avalanche of water rolled down their rugged steeps. 
The volume of accumulated water became so immense in 
ravine and stream that it would be impossible to describe the 
force and fury with which it swept away everything in its 
path. For a brief time it seemed as if our cities were about to 
be annihilated by a deluge. Buildings were utterly crushed 
upon their foundations, oi tossed like feathers before the wind 
and carried rapidly to certain and fearful destruction ; bridges 
were swept from their abutments and borne with incredible 
yelocit}^ on the swelling tide ; railroads and streets were literally 
obliterated ; large numbers of homes were razed to their foun- 
dations, and their inmates hurried, almost without monition, 
into eternit}^ ; brick and stone walls crumbled almost like sand 
and became part of the awful torrent, and in turn assisted in 
devastation and ruin. Pen and tongue fail to adequately de- 
scribe the terrific scenes of that fearful night, with its mingled 
calamities of ruin and death! Amidst the desolation thus 
wrought by the storm and, flood, there came from every side 
wails of lamentation and sounds of mourning. The following 
paragraphs from the Pittsburgh Dispatch, of July 28th, (when 
the extent of the direful calamity was yet not fully known), 
■graphically and eloquently describe the disaster: — ' 



"Startling disasters, like startling crimes, are too infrequent 
to school the heart to peruse the ghastly details with ordinary 
emotions. Jean Bigelow's pathetic description of " High 
Tide on the Coast of Jjincolnshire " has been read with tear- 
bedimmed eyes by millions. The late Mill River disaster in 
Massachusetts, whereby a vast amount of property and many live* 
tvere sacraficed by the resistless torrent, evoked the most exquisite 
sympathy for the sorely stricken people of a sister State. But in the 
presence of a greater calamity than these, the most enlarged sympathy 
is futile to assauge the poignancy of the grief which afflicts so many of 
our citizens, whose all — wives, children and property — have been swept 
away as completely as if they had never been, leaving them desolate 
indeed. The weather Sunday afternoon was showery, but not porten- 
tious of unusual elemental phenomena. Citizens attended religious 
services as usual ; and, when about seven o'clock the rain subsided, and 
the declining sun tinted the passing clouds with purple and gold, thous- 
ands crowded upon the streets, seeking pleasure or recreation, discussing 
the events of the day and the prospects of the morrow, which, alas ! 
came not to many. Thus fell the shades of night ; the people retired 
to rest, and ' silence brooded over a still and pulseless world. ' 

" Between nine and ten o'clock frequent and vivid flashes of light- 
ning in the northern heavens, accompanied by terrific peals of thunder, 
presaged the coming disaster. Momentarily increasing in violence, it 
was but a few minutes until the streets in many places were impass- 
able ; water swept down the gutters like roaring torrents ; the broad- 
est avenues were solid sheets of water ; while from hillsides poured a 
deluge which tore rocks of a ton's weight from their foundations and 
gashed and seamed the earth as if it had been riven by an earthquake. 
Nothing could resist the awful volume of rushing, seething water. Sub- 
stantial brick houses crumbled when it struck them as if they had been 
made of sand ; frame buildings were lifted from their foundations, 
borne along on the angry current, and dashed to pieces against other 
buildings which vainly obstructed their course. In some instances 
foundations were undermined and buildings sunk down in sand and 
debris to the second story. So resistless was the torrent that nothing 
in its path escaped destruction — houses, bridges, fences, trees, all going 
down before it, and combining to constitute a scene of ruin such as 
none had ever witnessed before, and such as we hope we may never 
look upon again. But great as was the destruction of property, it is 
nothing in view of the loss of human life. Of those who retired to 
rest on Sunday evening in the stricken districts, more than two hun- 
dred were pallid corpse when the morning light broke upon the dread- 
ful scene. More than a score of little children, who on Sunday night, 
kneeling at their mother's knee, lisped ' Now I lay me down to sleep,' 
realized the full significance of the petition 'ere morning broke. Their 
bodies when found being in many instances dreadfully disfigured, their 
delicate limbs gashed and broken, their beautiful tresses disheveled 
and intermixed with loathful accretions. Oh 1 it was a spectacle to 
make strong men weep and sympathetic women tremble and turn, faint- 
ing, away. In some cases entire families were swept from their beds, 
their houses falling in ruins upon them, and all lost together. 

'• The scene early Monday moi-ning surpasses the power of lan- 
guage to adequately describe. Thousands of people, many of whom 
had been bereaved during the night, flocked to the scene of disaster to 
survey the ruin, and if possible, recover the bodies of their dead wives, 
husbands, children or friends. Hundreds of willing hands were soon 
at work removing the debris, while hundreds of others, with bated 



breatli> hoping against hope that their missing ones had escaped 
awaited the issue. As body after body was taken from the ruins, and 
was recognized, men sobbed and women wailed, while the spectators 
stood with uncovered heads as it was borne away. There were many 
such scenes. A German, the bodies of whose wife and three children 
were recovered and taken to his house, manifested every symptom of 
insanity, all efforts of his friends failing to compose his mind. At 
midday his condition had not improved, and it is probable the irre- 
parable loss he sustained has permanently unsettled his mind. 

"But why dwell at greater length on these harrowing details? 
Nothing so dire, so everwhelming, so fruitful of soul arid heart agony, 
has ever before visited our people. Let those who escaped bear their 
full share of the burden it imposes. We cannot restore to that mother 
her darling child; to that husband his wife; to that wife her husband; 
but we can and should sympathise with these unfortunate people. We 
can assist to rebuild their homes; we can provide for their temporary 
necessities; we can, in a thousand ways, assuage their grief by kindly 
counsel and timely pecuniary assistance. This much is demanded, not 
only by the ties of humanity, but by the closer bond of citizenship. 
The necessity is urgent, and we implore all — rich and poor alike—to 
take immediate steps for the relief of our unfortunate fellow citizens." 

The loss of human life and damage to property was not 
confined to these cities but extended far beyond their territo- 
rial boundaries, especially along the streams which penetrate 
the surrounding hills. Within our cities the districts most 
severely afflicted were Butcher's Run, (Madison Avenue), 
Spring Garden valley, O'Hara Street and vicinity, and Wood's 
Run, in Allegheny City, and Soho, Thirty-third Street, Laurel 
Avenue, Old Avenue and vicinity, Saw Mill Run and Temper^ 
anceville, in Pittsburgh. There was also great loss of life and 
destruction of property in the Chartiers valley, along Mc- 
Laughlin's Run, at Beck's Run, Painter's Run, and at Mans- 
field. To recount the thrilling incidents and touching scenes 
which accompanied and followed the direful calamity would re- 
quire the space of a volume. The day after the flood, in pass- 
ing up Chestnut Street, a crowd was seen gathered around a 
little boy, aged seven years, upon enquiry, he gave the name 
Georgie Hoover. He and his parents and two brothers and a 
sister — six in all — had lived in a small house at the head of 
Chestnut Street. The flood came, in its mad career, and over- 
whelmed them. His family perished, but Georgie was in bed 
and floated into the house of a Mr. Walter, where he was 
rescued. Apparently a bright child, intelligent beyond his 
years, he realized his homeless and friendless condition in the 
world with an agony that was painful to behold. 

Among the houses struck by the seething torrent was a small 
frame tenement, occupied by a Mr Dillon and his family, with 
whom at the time were the children of some neighbors, in all nine 
persons. The little house floated rapidly frord it foundation, 
bufietted by floating timber and angry billows. One side was 
battered out, and the water rushed in to a considerable depth. 



Providentially forced against a tree, which held it like an 
anchor, all the inmates were saved. A Mrs Jones, at Saw Mill 
Run, had sent her little boy to a neighbors on an errand, and 
when she saw the waters rushing past her house, and afterwards 
dammed up until they silraost filled the volley, her fear that her 
boy was lost became so overwhelming that she suddenly fell 
upon the floor a corpse. 

Frederick Schultz, who resided on Iten Street, above the 
reach of the flood, heard the piercing screams of the struggling 
and drowning victims below, rushed out, attempting to make 
his way through the water to O'Hara Street. Finding that im- 
possible, he swam down to Centre Street, and thence passed to 
the vicinity of Ohio Street, where he found a skiff. Overcom- 
ing the swift current he pushed up to Centre Street and 
Spring Garden Avenue, and, with the assistance of two other 
men, who got into the skiff", succeeded in reoovoring eleven 
bodies. At times they encountered fenrful perils, and they 
were so exhausted when the flood abated, that their lives were 
in great peril. 

One of the saddest scenes occured at a house in Union 
Township, where two sisters resided together. One of them 
had been for more than a year sick and self-helpless. When 
the waters came upon them suddenly, the feeble one perished 
and the other barely escaped. The body was discovered next 
day and carried back to the place where their home had stood. 
When tlie surviving sister saw it she became a raving maniac, 
and died that night, and the two were buried in one grave. 

At Bailey's Run resided a poor widow with a son, her 
sole support. Their house was carried away by the flood and 
her son drowned. On Monday morning, ascertaining the cer- 
tainty of her son's death, she exclaimed, " My heart is broken 1 
1 see my child in the clouds ! " and immediately dropped dead. 

Archie Arnold, of Madison Avenue, aged twonty-two 
3'ears, bravely entered the flood to save a neighbor's children, 
but perished with them. 

Two children were taken out alive from the immense pile 
of debris on Fast Street. One of them, a little boy, was almost 
unrecognizable as a human being, but still alive. The other, a 
little girl, was found in the attic of a house which had been 
moved and wrecked by the flood. She was greatly exhausted, 
but not otherwise injured. 

Willie Hubert, whose home was safe from the flood, has- 
tened to the scene of danger and desolation, plunged into the 
whirl of black waters and labored heroically in rescuing those 
who were perishing, until he perished himself His name de- 
serves record among the roll of those brave men who " with- 



out other inspiration than the voices of their souls, in the deep 
darkness of the cloud-clad night, amid the terrific roar of rush- 
ing waters and the crash of tumbling structures, making a 
tumult more appalling than any shock of armed squadrons, con- 
stituted themselves a forlorn hope to save the dying and to 
die themselves." 

" Voegtly's Meadow " was truly a valley of death and 
destruction. The place so called is bounded by Ohio Street 
and foot of Troy Hill, forming an angle, where the force of the 
flood concentrated, and here many broken houses formed a kind 
of barracade, and stayed the mighty flood. 

Some who saw the flood at its height, speak of it as fear- 
fully bewildering. They say that the streets were swimming 
with houses, lumber, goods, horses^ cattle, and above all, men, 
women and children ; cries and agonizing screams were heard 
on every side, whilst flashes of lightning, intermittingly, lit up 
with lurid glare the fearful scene, exposing struggling human 
forms on the wild waters. Never was destruction more sudden 
or complete. For a mile and a half up Madison Avenue, 
(Butcher's Run), where had stood the frugal and happy home 
of an industrious people, little remained but a scarred and track- 
less waste. The spirit of the storm had passed, and on its track 
was desolation and death; drowned mothers with their babes, 
and fathers clasping sons in their asms, perished together. 
Some had doubtless fallen into a merciful sleep, from which 
there had been no awakening, before the angel of death came. 
Amid the scenes when daylight came, a number were found 
under circumstances which clearly indicated voluntary repose 
at the fatal moment. 

Amid the desolation and death thus wrought by tempest 
and flood, thousands of surviving men, women and children 
barely escaped death to find their comfortable homes utterly 
destroyed and themselves without food or clothing or even a 
shelter from the elements. But the extent of the calamity was 
not fully realized for many hours afterwards. The citj"^ of 
Allegheny, which had been scourged by an extensive conflagra- 
tion on the fourth of July, was now, within three weeks there- 
after, draped in mourning and clouded in gloom by a vastly 
greater and more severe visitation. But as soon as the facts 
became generally known throughout these cities the cries of 
distress and appeals for immediate relief were promptly met 
by universal sympathy and generous aid. But for the purpose 
of securing organized action and more effectual work for the 
relief of the sufferers, the Hononable Hugh S. Fleming, M ay or 
of Allegheny, with commendable promptness issued a call for 
a meeting at the City Hall, in that city. In response to the 
call the meeting was organized by electing Mayor Fleming as 



chairman, and appointing Messrs, Arrott and Graham as secre- 
taries. After suggestions from the Mayor and other gentle- 
men, as to the necessity for i)rompt action, not only for the 
relief of human sutlering, but for the removal of the debris, 
the sanitary care of the desolated districts, the recovery of the 
bodies of the dead and the protection of property, provision 
was made for the emploj'ment of hundreds of laborers, and the 
detailing of the police, and also for calling out the militia for 
guard duty. 

Mr. John S. Slagle submitted the following resolutions, 
which were adopted unanimously: — 

Resolved, That a Committee of citizens of Allegheny County be 
appointed to collect funds for the relief of the sufferers by the flood of 
Sunday night, July 36th, 1874, with power to appoint as many sub- 
committees as may be necessary to do the work pi-omptly. 

Resolved, That banks in Pittsburgh and Allegheny be appointed 
depositories where persons may call and deposit such sums as they may 
desire to contribute, without waiting to be called upon by the com- 
mittee. 

Whereupon the following banks were so designated : Real 
Estate Bank, Working Men's Savings Bank, First National 
Bank of Allegheny, Manchester Savings Bank, German National 
Bank of Pittsburgh, Union National Bank of Pittsburgh, An- 
chor Savings Bank, German American Bank, and Smithfield 
Savings Bank of Pittsburgh. 

The Chairman then appointed the following Executive 
Committee : 

•John S. Slagle, John A. Myler, D. O'Neill, A. L. Pearson and 
Hugh M'Neill. 

On motion of John A. Myler, Esq., the following com- 
mittee was appointed to take charge of the funerals of those 
not already properly cared for : — 

Ormsby Phillips, Henry Gerwig, D. C. Herbst, R. Monroe Ken- 
nedy, J. Lautner, Joseph Myers, W. C. Anschutz, John Megraw, 
Joseph Home and Adam Beplar. 

On motion of Josiah Cohen, Esq., it was ordered that the 
said Executive Committee, with the Chairman of the meeting, 
should attend the relief meeting to be held in Pittsburgh, with 
a view to concert of action. 

On motion of John A. Myler, Esq., the Mayor of Alle- 
gheny was requested to issue a proclamation asking the people 
to suspend business on Tuesday, July 28th, between the hours 
of two and four o'clock, P. M. — the time designated for the 
funerals. In compliance with the resolution. Mayor Fleming 
issued the following 



PROCLAMATION! 

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City of Allegheny, July 27th, 1874. f 

By the great calamity which has befallen our city, almost one hun- 
dred of our citizens have been swept suddenly into eternity by the great 
flood of Sunday last. A.t a public meeting of the citizens it was 
resolved that the Mayor issue this Proclamation, asking all persons to 
suspend business on to-day, between the hours of two and four, P. M., 
as a mark of respect to the memory of the deceased. In view of that 
fact I most respectfully ask our people to suspend business between 
the hours noted to-day. 

H. S. FLEMING, Mayor. 

Major-General Pearson, in compliance with the wishes of 
the meeting, announced that he would be pleased to detail two 
companies of the Eighteenth Division of the militia for duty, 
and if necessaiy he would send over a regiment and take com- 
mand himself An order was issued accordingly, calling the 
Washington Infantry, the Heath Zouaves and Knapp's Battery, 
together witli the Divison Staff, for doing guard and other duty 
in the City of Allegheny; and it is proper to add that these 
efficient military organizations performed onerous and efficient 
work, like gallant soldiers and true men. 

In pursuance of a call issued by acting Mayor Samuel Mc- 
Masters, a meeting was held at Municipal Hall, in f'ittsburgh, 
on Tuesday afternoon, July 28th, which was largely attended 
by citizens of both cities, including the Allegheny Executive 
Committee. Hon. J. K. Moorhead presided. A dispatch was 
received from Mr. Solomon Stien, No. 180 Grand Street, New 
York, to Mayor Blackmore, as follows : 

" Draw at sight on me for $100 for sufferers by flood. If distress 
is great, will start subscription here." 

On motion of Mr. John S. Slagle, the chairman appointed 
the following Executive Committee to act in co-operation with 
the Allegheny Committee : — 

A. M. Brown, Robert Liddell, S. J. Wainwright, J. S. Atkinson, 
Rev. E. R. Donehoo, Wm. McCreery, Peter Connelly, and Josiah King. 

On motion of A. M. Brown, John Dean, Esq., was chosen 
Treasurer of the Relief Fund. 

On motion, committees were appointed to ascertain the 
names and residences of all the sufferers in the cities and 
vicinity. The names of 

David Oliver, — Wilson, Thomas P. Hershberger, John G. Walther, 
Peter Loeflfler, Fred. Beilstien, J. Lautner, C. W. Anschutz, W. J. 
Fawcett, J. Meirhofifer, Peter Connelly, Daniel Bulford, and others, 
were suggested and adopted. 

On motion the Executive Committee were authorized tc 

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appoint ward committees to solicit subscriptions and report 
to the Executive Committee, who were authorized to receive 
and distribute the relief fund. The meeting then adjourned, 
and the Executive Committee immediately convened and or- 
ganized by electing A. M. Brown, Chairman, and John A. Myler, 
Secretary. The Committee then issued the following public 
notice : — 

"The undersigned Committee appointed to receive and distribute 
the funds contributed for the relief of the sufferers by the flood on 
Sunday night, July 26tli, 1874, are now pre^jared to take charge of the 
same. Contributions may be paid to John Dean, Esq., Treasurer, at 
the Real Estate Savings Bank, Allegheny, or to any of the banks heie- 
tofore designated as depositories." 

The following persons were appointed as committees to 
solicit subscriptions to the Relief Eund, with power to appoint 
assistants : — 

John Seiferth, Joseph M. Gazzam. 
John Wilson, James Irwin. 
John Kaiser, Gus. L. Braun. 
Gen. Joseph Brown, G. Follansbee. 
Peter CNeill, M. Hanrahan. 
R. W. Pier, E. W. Morrow. 
Wm. Douglass, Joseph A. Butler. 
Geo. Chalmers, John McGimpsey 
(Local Committee.) 
Dr. Alil, John Grant. 

B. F. Kennedy, Joseph W. Lewis. 
Robert Liddell, T. W. Welsh. 
John Harrison, E. P. Jones. 
Chas. E. Speer, Henry Lloyd. 
Adam Dietz, George Garrison. 
Samuel McKinley, George Nessenthaler, 

Robert Watson, J. P. Epping. 
James W. Campbell, John B. Cochran. 
Henry Williams, Frank Bissell. 
Robert B. Carnahan, P. H. Laufman. 
Capt. Chas. W. Batchelor, John D. Bailey. 
Col. L Liddell, Finley Toi-rens, J. M. Brush. 
D. A. Stewart, David Hutchinson, Hartley 

Howard. 
John D. Scully, Thomas W. Davis, 
R, B. Brown, D. Johnson. 
Dr. Rahauser, George Fox. 
J. T. Galvin, John Hartz. 
John Adams Daniel Wenke. 
T. B. Atterbury, Wm. Doyle. 
H. D. Rolfe, John B. Haines. 
Benjamin McLain, John W. Turney. 

C. S. Fetterman, S. D. Goldthorpe. 
Thomas Kernan, P. Laughran. 
R. S. Hemiup, Louis Aurin. 
A. Oberheldman, Samuel Cargo. 
Thos. P. Hershberger, Philip Vierheller. 
James Kelly, Capt. J. Woodwell. 



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O. O. Phillips, C. Yeager. 

Alfred Slack, Prof. L. H. Eaton. 

Arthur Hobson, Joseph Myers, Jacob Kopp, 

Fred Lang. 
John Megraw, Henry Gerwig, Isaac Hipley, 

M. Graver. 
John Heath, Jos Home. 
Henry Warner, Frederick Thomas. 
Martin Ley, A. Weise. 
Gottlieb Fisher, Julius Groetzinger. 
R. H. Kerr, David Davis, Sen. 
Joseph McNaugher, Chas. A Stimple. 
Joseph Hartman, David Oliver. 

Daniel Dempsey, John .T. Williams. 
George Chalfant, John A. McQuade. 
Jacob Covode, H. F. Dunham. 

Books for receiving subscriptions were prepared under the 
direction of the Executive Conamittee, and furnished to the 
sub-committees. 

In addition to these regular appointments, a number of 
energetic persons, actin-y under tlie impulses of sympathy and 
duty, voluntarily acted as collectors and greatly promoted the 
relief movement. Others promptly forwarded money and 
goods for the sufferers without solicitation. This considerate 
and well timed relief not onl}^ supplied pressing wants but 
helped to put in motion a stream of benevolence which flowed 
on with unparalled munificence until its work was nobly accom- 
plished. From necessity the Executive Committee were com- 
pelled to designate special agents in particular departments. 
Jno. A. Myler, p]sq., of Allegheny City, and Rev. E. R. Donehoo, 
of the South Side, Pittsburgh, both of whom had been from the 
first, and continued until the end, most faithful, industrious 
and self-sacrificing laborers in the good work, were made dis- 
bursing agents for their respective districts. To Mr. Myler's 
otherwise onerous duties, was added the work of distributing 
to the sufferers in the other localities, not embraced in Mr. 
Donehoo's district. Mr. Harry C. Campbell was placed in 
charge of the clothing department, assisted by quite a number 
of kind-hearted and benevolent ladies. 

To supply the immediate wants of those whose all had 
been swept away, large quantities of clothing and other neces- 
saries were required, and distributed. The duties thus devolved 
on the distributors were especially delicate and onerous. Where 
all workers were so active and faithful, it may seem improper 
to especially commend any particular individuals, but we feel 
that it is our duty to make special mention of Miss Mary 
Bryant, the Bible reader, who labored night and day aiding 
and comforting the afflicted. In that awful night many that 



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were in the flood contracted diseases that laid them on beds of 
pain and death. With these Miss Bryant labored almost with- 
out ceasing, not only in furnishing medicine, food and clothing, 
but in pointing them to that bright and better world beyond 
the flood. 

The Ladies' Temperance Alliance, at their headquarters in 
Crusade Halls, both in Pittsburgh and Allegheny, not only 
made up material that they had purchased with their own 
funds, and material that had been given them for that purpose, 
but also made bedding and clothing of all the goods furnished 
them by the Committee. 

To the Ladies' Relief Societies, of both our cities, we are 
under a deep obligation for their assistance and help — they 
having labored in every way possible to alleviate the distress. 
May He who ever rewards the faithful worker, bless them for 
their work of Mercy to those in distress 

We would also return our thanks to the following ladies 
and gentlemen who labored so faithfully in the distribution 
of clothing and other supplies at the headquarters of the Com- 
mittee: Mrs. McEuwen, Mrs. Emma Myler, Mrs. L. H. Eaton, 
Miss Mary Eaton, Prof. L. H. Eaton, J. T. Myler and Master 
Johnston. 

To Major General Pearson and the soldiers under his com- 
mand the Committee desire to render thanks on behalf of the 
people. For a few days immediately after the catastrophe the 
flooded districts were visited by thousands of people, who came 
out of curiosity to see the ruins. These crowds so interfered 
with the working parties that it was decided to call upon the 
militia to stand guard. General Pearson immediately ordered 
the Eighteenth Division, N. G. P. into service. The assistance 
rendered was so timely and eiEcient that it is difficult to imag- 
ine how their services could have been dispensed with. 

The saddest duty of all devolved on the Burial Com- 
mittee. It consisted of Ormsby Phillips, Henry Gerwig, D C 
Herbst, R. Monroe Kennedy, Joseph Lautner, Joseph Meyers, 
W. C- Anschutz, John Megraw, Joseph Home and Adam 
Beplar. There was such a large district to be gone over, that 
it required a great amount of labor. The principal places 
where there had been loss of life were the Butcher's Run district. 
Wood's Run, Saw Mill Run and Soho. The Committee,with large 
parties of laborers, searched through the debris and rubbish for 
bodies until all were found. The bodies were all taken charge 
of and properly dressed and prepared for burial by the Com- 
mittee. In many cases friends of the deceased took charge of 
the remains, but where there were no loving hands to perform 
this last sad duty, the Committee tenderly cared for them, the 



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expense being paid out of the relief fund. All the bodies, with 
one exception, were reeoved. The missing one was a small child 
which had probably been carried into the river and buried 
beneath the sand and rubbish. The arduous duties of the Burial 
Committee were promptly and acceptably performed, entitling 
the members thereof to our thanks and gratitude. There were 
five orphan children, for whom the Committee considered it their 
duty to make special provision. These orphans were left 
homeless, friendless and pennyless, and some of them in feeble 
health. There names and ages were as follows: Mena Schnef- 
fer, aged 16; Susan Conlon, aged 16; Jacob Metzler, aged 1 
years; Susan Metzler, aged 4 years, (since deceased), and Geo. 
Huber. These childi'en were all properly cared for, and are 
in good places where they will be carefully trained and edu- 
cated. Little Susan Metzler did not long survive her family. 
She was a sweet, intelligent child, and has gone to Him who 
said, " Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto 
rae, for of such is the kingdom of heaven." 

The Executive Committee have deposited in the Third Na- 
tional Bank, of Allegheny, for each of these children the sum of 
three hundred and fifty dollars, at compound interest, to be paid 
to them res)3ectively, when they arrive at twentj^-one years of 
age. Should any of them die before reaching that age, then the 
portion of such decedent is to be divided equally between the 
Alleghenv Orphans' Asylum and the Catholic Orphans' 
Asylum, (Troy Hill.) 

The response of the people of Pittsburgh and Allegheny to 
the call for relief was so spontaneous and munificent that it be- 
canje at once evident that our people were not only willing but 
able to make instant and ample provision for their stricken 
fellow citizens. Although words of kindness and sympathy 
were spoken in our behalf by many newspapers all over the 
country, and suggestions made by them as to the duty of the 
citizens of other cities to give us substantial help, the sentiment 
here seemed to be adverse to any appeal for aid from abroad, 
therefore the Executive Committee made no efl["ort in that 
direction. But it is proper to state that a number of non-resi- 
dent individuals and corporations, closely allied to citizens of 
Pittsburgh and Allegheny and their commercial interests, made 
generous subscriptions to the Relief Fund. The names of all 
such appear in the list of contributions appended to this report. 
After full information had been obtained, both as to the extent 
of the loss and the relief needed, it became apparent that the 
fund was likely to prove inadequate, therefore the Committee 
published the following appeal addressed to Pittsburgh and 
Allegheny corporations and firms alone : — 



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APPEAL! 

The Executive Relief Cortimittee have been greatly e-Rcauraged 
and generously supported in their effoi'ts to relieve the present wants 
of the sufferers by the Hood, by the liberal subscriptions already re- 
ceived — mainly from those of small means; but the amount thus far 
subscribed will aftbrd only temporary relief, and fall far short of the 
work which should be accomplished. Believing that our corporations, 
manufacturers, merchants, and capitahsts, have the ability as well as 
the inclination to do their whole duty in this emergency, when pro- 
perly Kdvised of the necessity for action, the Committee, being unable 
to make a direct personal application, take this method of soliciting 
such generous subscriptions from banks, insui'ance companies, railway 
and bridge companies, and other corporations and manufacturing and 
mercantile firms in and around our own two cities, as shall be worthy 
of their sturdy financial abilitj'- and accustomed liberality, and com- 
mensurate with the dutj devolving upon them in view of the dire 
calamity which obliterated so many homes, destroyed so many indus- 
trious lives, and left in its track only sorrow, desolation and death. 

Mainly upon those least able to bear the burden has this great 
misfortune fallen. 

It is the privilege, as well as the duty of those whose homes and for- 
tunes have been mercifully preserved, to assist in the good work of pro- 
viding for the helpless and homeless, and restoring as best they can the 
pecuniary loss which the afflicted have sustained. This much we can do, 
leaving yet unrestored bereaved homes, blighted lives, and broken hearts. 
In such an emergency we suggest veryfaintly and imperfectly the duty of 
the hour. We should have one hundred thousand dollars within the 
present week. Large as that sum seems, it is utterly insignificant in 
comparison with the ascertained loss. Liberal as hundreds have been, 
tbe aggregate subscriptions fall far short of half the sum mentioned. 
We thereiore appeal earnestly and hopefully for instant and generous 
action towards the accomplishment of the duty devolving upon us. 

A. M. BROWN, Chairman. 

Note.— (^Contributions may be paid to John Dean, Esq., Treasurer, 
at the Allegheny Real Estate Bank, or to any authorized collector or 
depository. 

The response was gratifyingly prompt and liberal. The 
Pennsylvania Railroad Company responded as follows 

Pennsylvania Railboad Co. 
Office of the Third Vice-President, 
Philadelphia, Pa., August 13, 1874. 

A. M. Brown, Esq., Chairman Citizens' Executive Relief Committee, 
Pittsburgh, Pa. 

Mt Dear Sir : — At a meeting of the Board of Directors of the 
Pennsylvania Railroad Company held August 12, 1874, it was 

Besohed, That five thoiisand dollars be donated by this Company 
toward the fund being raised by the Citizens' Executive Relief Com- 
mittee of Pittsburgh, Pa., in aid of the sufferers by the flood of July 
26, 1874. 

I accordingly have the pleasure to enclose a voucher for the sum 
named, in favor of John Dean, Esq., Treasurer, which will be cashed 
by the Merchants and Manufacturers Bank of Pittsburgh. 
Yours very truly, 

A. J. CASSATT. 



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Othei's sent generous contributions, until the fund reached 
an amount far above our first expectations. Thomas Sparks, 
Esq., President of the Pennsylvania Salt Manufacturing Com- 
pany, sent five hundred dollars. The Allegheny Quartette 
Club contributed $562 30, the proceeds of a Concert given 
by them The guests and employees of the Mountain House, 
Cresson, Pa., sent $152 50, The Duquesne Greys, encamped 
at Bedford Springs, gave $200. 

Amongst other expressions of sympathy, with substantial 
aid, was the following ; — 

Philadelphia, Pa., July 31, 1874. 
Mr. George M. Dosh, Allegheny Gity : ^^7>X^,,^ 

Dear Sir. Enclosed please find our check for e^Ur hundred 
dollars for the relief of the sufferers by the recent flood. We know 
you need this kind of tangible sympathy more than volumes of pathetic 
words. 

Please endorse the check over to the Mayor or the Committee hav- 
ing charge of the Relief Fund. 

Yours truly, 

ZQWS. B. ELLISON & SONS. 

The Philharmonic Society of Pittsburgh, an orchestra of 
more than thirtj^ men, kindly tendered their professional ser- 
vices for a Concert in aid of the sufferers, but the Executive 
Committee did not feel warranted in undertaking the matter 
and therefore respectfully declined the generous offer. 

The apportionment and distribution of the fund was an 
arduous task. No one who did not participate in the work 
can fully appreciate the delicacy and difficulty of the underta- 
kin g. The trust devolved upon the Executive Committe re- 
quired for its impartial and jj^ust execution a systematic plan, 
prompt action, correct iiiformation of the circumstances of 
applicants for r-elief, and of the losses which thej^^had sustained, 
the examination of statements and proofs of loss, and the dis- 
pensation of even-handed justice to all, and yet the making of 
special provision for extreme cases of hardship and destitution. 
All this, and more, was involved in the great work, and it de- 
manded the highest fidelity and discrimination in those appoin- 
ted to distribute the public bounty. To reach the desired result 
it was necessar}^ to devolve the most important part of the work 
upon a ,few individuals. That plan tended to secure expertness 
and accuracy, and guarded against inequality, imposition or 
fraud. 

Some applicants would not have been satisfied had they 
obtained twice as much as they were justl}' entitled to, whilst 
others more worthy and not less unfortunate, hesitated to accept 
any part of the fund. Again, there were individuals claiming 



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a share of the public bounty, who, although they had really 
sustained serious loss by the flood, were still far richer than 
a majority' of those who had contributed to the Relief Fund! 
Indeed, the distributors were subjected to insult and abuse 
because the}'^ refused to turn over a portion of the monej"^ to 
applicants whose tax list and income indicated not onl^ pecuni- 
ary abilit}', but actual wealth, and whose real losses by the flood 
tvere inconsiderable. 

Fraud and imposition was attempted in numerous instances. 
Genteel iraposte^'s as well as vagrants in rags often attempted 
to obtain, through false pretences and fraud, portions of the 
fund, but were rarely, if ever, successful. False affidavits, 
forged certificates and fraudulent vouchers were not infrequently 
presented in support of dishonest claims, but, thanks to the 
vigilence and integrity of the Committee's agents, these at- 
tempted villanies were generall}', if not entirely, unsuccessful. 
It was interesting to observe the numerous applicants for 
relief. Some were utterly heartbroken and disconsolate, i,nd 
begged for something to eat, wiiile others appeared with item- 
ized nccounts of their losses and demanded payment in full, 
and that instantly. Others who had lost everything, and were 
without food, clothing or shelter, humbly and thankfully 
accepted what v^^as given to them. And had those who so 
generouslj' and nobly provided the Relief Fund been present 
to witness its disbursement, and the relief and comfort which 
it brought lo many a stricken heart and desolate home, they 
certainly would have realized the great truth, " It is more 
blessed to give than to receive," 

How successful the Committee have been in executing the 
great trust is a matter for the judgment of their constituents 
to determine. This much they gan say, that neither time nor 
labor was regarded in the accomplishment of their work. They, 
doubtless, often erred in judgment, but their sincere desire was to 
discharge the trust in accordance with the design of those who so 
generously created it, so as to be just to all and secure the great- 
est good to the largest numbers of sufferers. Some idea ma}' be 
formed of the herculean task when we state that at the office of 
Mr. Myler alone there were fifteen hundi-ed applicants for relief. 
At the headquarters of Rev. Donehoo, South Side, Pittsbui'gh, 
the number was also very large. The schedule of distribution 
appended to this report exhibits the disposition of the 
fund, but necessarily fails to suggest to the mind of the reader 
the faintest idea of the patient toil, diligence, anxiety and care 
by which it was successfully accomplished. The Executive 
Committee would fail in the performance of duty if they neg- 
lected to express their gratitude to their special agents who 
performed the most difficult, important and delicate portion of 



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the work with admirable ability, integrity and success. As al- 
ready stated, John A. Myler, Esq., was the active agent who 
performed or superintended the distribution made to sufferers 
in the City of Alleghen}' and vicinity, and in the City of Pitts- 
burgh, between the rivers. This duty involved weeks and 
months^ of constant toil and sacrifice of personal interests and 
business, and required patient investigation, sleepless vigilance 
and care, intelligent judgment and unswerving impartiality and 
integrity. 

Upon the Rev. E. R. Donehoo devolved like duties for the 
South Side, (Pittsburgh), district, and the region of country 
be3^ond. His labors in that district were onerous and incessant. 
Besides the distribution of money, food and clothing to the 
destitute, he was diligent and faithful in the performance of 
good deeds of benevolence and mercy, alleviating pain and dis- 
tress and restoring hope and comfort in many desponding 
hearts and desolated homes. Both of these gentlemen did 
their whole duty, and did it so well, that words fail to express 
with sufficient power the extent of our admiration and gratitude. 

To John Dean, Esq., Treasurer of the Relief Fund, we, 
as well as the- public, are indebted for his able and faithful per- 
formance of responsible duties. Conscious of the important 
trust devolved upon him hj his fellow citizens, he was a dili- 
gent and efficient worker, not only in promoting the relief move- 
ment, but in conducting it to a successful solution. 

In submitting this report of our administration of the 
Relief Fund, we have redeemed a promise made to our con- 
stituents and to the public at large, and have enabled those 
who had 

"A tear for pity, and a hand 

Open as day for melting charity," 

to contemplate the breadth of comfort and happiness with which 
their benovolence, as sunlight of heaven, illuminated the hearts 
and homes of a multitude of people. 

A. M. BROWN, Chairman. 



I^AMES OF THE DEOWII^ED. 



BUTCHER'S RUN. 

1. August Bolster, aged five years ; resided on O'Hara 
street, and was buried on Troy Hill. 

2. Louis Huber, aged IH^ years ; resided on O'Hara 
street, and was buried in St. Mary's cemetery. 

3. Wm. Hare, aged three weeks; resided on Centre street, 
and was buried in Spring Hill cemetery. 

4. Henry Hess, 43 years of age; resided at No. 116 
Chestnut street, and was buried in the Troy Hill cemetery. 

5. Henry Shafer, aged 26 years; resided at No. 41 
Second street, and was buried in the Troy Hill cemetery. 

6. Joseph Schnepper, 52 years of age ; resided on O'Hara 
street, and was buried with family in St. Mary's cemetery. 

1. Louisa Schnepper, 42 years of age. 

8. Louisa Schnepper, 2 years of age. 

9. Mary Schnepper, 14 years of age. 

10. Lizzie Schnepper, aged 11 years. 

1 1. Jno. Schnepper, aged 4 years. 

12. Unknown male child, about 10 years of age ; buried in 
Uniondale cemetery. 

13. Mary Connelly, 52 years of age ; resided. on O'Hara 
street, and was buried in St. Mary's cemetery. 

14. Rosa Metzler, aged 11 months ; resided on O'Hara 
street; buried in St. Mary's cemetery. 

15. Sophia Metzel, aged 28 years; resided on O'Hara 
street : buried in St. Mary's cemetery. 

16. Jacob Metzel; resided on O'Hara street, and was 
buried in St. Mary's cemetery. 

11. Conrad Glatzel, aged 45 years; buried in St. Mary's 
cemeterj\ 

18. Mrs. Glatzel, aged 40 years ; buried in St. Mary's 
cemetery. 

19. Minnie Frederich, aged 10 years; resided on Centre 
street, and was buried in Weidershausen's cemetery. 

20. George Knochel, a child ; buried in Troy Hill ceme- 
tery. 

21. Sophia Knochel, a child ; buried in Troy Hill ceme- 
tery. 



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22. Andrew Merdium, a child; buried in Spring Hill 
cemetery. 

23. Caroline Merdium, a child; buried in Spring Hill 
cemetery. 

24. I. T. Fuchs ; buried in St. Mary's cemetery. 

25. Joseph Fuchs , buried in St. Mary's cemetery. 

26. Barbara Fuchs ; buried in St, Mar3''s cemetery. 

27. Archibald Arnold, aged 22 years ; resided on Madi- 
son avenue ; buried in Uniondale cemetery. 

28. Mrs. Henry Leopold ; resided on O'Hara street ; was 
buried with rest of family in St. Mary's cemetery. 

29. Son of Henry Leopold. 

30. " " " 

31. Daughter of Henry Leopold. 

32. " 

33. Mr. Huber ; buried in St. Marv's cemetery. 

34. Mrs. Huber; " " "" " 

35. Mr. Geisler, aged 40 j^ears ; buried in St. Mary's 
cemetery. 

36. Mrs. Geisler, aged 40 years ; buried in St. Mary's 
cemetery. * 

37. Mr. Hufnagle ; buried in St. Mary's cemetery. 

38. Margaret Hufnagle, 35 years of age ; buried in St. 
Mary's cemetery. 

39. Henry Mattern, 28 years of age ; resided on East 
street, and was buried, with the rest of his family,in St. John's 
cemetery. 

40 Charles Mattern, aged 4 years. 

41. Mrs. S. Mattern, 25 years of age. 

42. Emma Mattern, aged 9 months. 

43. Wm. Humbard, 25 years of age ; resided at No. 252 
Ohio street ; buried in Allegheny cemetery. 

44. Michael Schlotter, aged 54 years; resided 216 Spring 
Garden avenue, and buried in Troy Hill cemetery. 

45. Emma Schl otter, aged 6 months ; resided on Spring 
Garden avenue ; hurried in Troy Hill cemetery. 

46. Mrs. Mary Conlon, aged 55 years; resided on East 
street ; buried in Brodhead cemetery. 

47. Mary Conlon, aged t months ; resided on East 
street, and buried in Brodhead cemetery. 

48. Theresa Conlon, aged 1 4 years ; resided on East 
street ; was buried in Brodhead cemetery. 

49. Emma Renkauff, aged 4 years ; resided on East 
street ; was buried in Troy Hill cemetery. 

50. Julia Renkauff, aged 9 months ; resided on East 
, street, and was buried in Troy Hill cemetery. 

51. I. Sheren, aged 4 years ; resided on East street, and 
was buried in St. Mary's cemetery. 



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52. Jolin Rodgers, aged 17 years ; resided on East street, 
and was buried in Brodhead cemetery. 

53. Minnie Wolting, aged 14 ; resided at No. 259 Madi- 
son avenue, and was buried in St. Mary's cemetery. 

54. Mrs. Mary Winkler, aged 28 Jyears; resided in East 
street, and was buried in the Lutheran cemetery. 

55. Child of Mrs. Winkler ; buried in Lutheran cemetery. 

56. Lizzie Connolly, aged 14 years; resided on O'Hara 
street, and was buried in St. Mary's cemetery, 

51. Fuchs, daughter of J. F. Fuchs ; four or five 

months old. 

58. Unknown child ; found in cellar about two weeks 
after the flood. 

WOOD'S RUN. 

1. Mary Forden, 1 j-ears of age ; buried in St. Mary's 
cemeter3\ 

2. Mary Forden, 28 years of age ; buried in St. Mary's 
cemetery. 

3. James Forden, 26 years of age ; buried in St. Mary's 
cemetery. 

4. Harry Forden, 5 years of age ; buried in St. Mary's 
cemetery. 

5. i orden, boy, aged 2 years; buried in St. Mary's 

cemetery, 

6. Willie Grorman, aged 3 years ; buried in St. Mary's 
cemetery. 

1. John Gorman, aged 30 years ; buried in St. Mary's 
cemetery. 

8. Gorman, boy, aged 6 months ; buried in St. 

Mary's cemetery. 

The following bodies were found floating in the river, and 
were buried from Allegheny, and the certificates returned to 
this office ; — 

1. Mrs. Thorne, 35 years of age ; resided in Mansfield, 
and was buried in the South Side cemetery. 

2. George Hoover, aged 7 years ; drowned in Chartiers 
creek, and buried in Uniondale cemetery. 

3. M. McVay, 32 years of age ; drowned in Saw Mill run, 

SAW MILL RUN. 

1, George Jones, aged 18 years ; 35th Ward, Pittsburgh ; 
body found. 

2. Lizzie Jones, aged 14 years ; 35th Ward, Pittsburgh ; 
body found. 



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3. Joseph Conner, aged 50 years; 35tliWard, Pittsburgh ; 
body found. 

4. Mrs. Betsy Lee, aged 50 years; 35th Ward, Pitts- 
burgh ; body found. 

5. Mrs. Dorathy Semple, aged 85 years ; Union Town- 
ship ; body found. 

6. Francis O'Neill, aged 38 years; Union Township; 
body found. 

Y. Patrick McYey, aged 35 years ; Union Township ; 
body found. 

S. Katie O'Neill, aged IT years; Union Township; 
body not found. 

9. Mrs. Sarah McYej'^, aged 35 years ; Union Township ; 
body not found. 

10. Catharine Ann McYey, aged 5 years ; Union Town- 
ship ; body found. 

11. Ellen McYey, aged 3 years ; Union Township; body 
not found. 

12. Isaiah Thorp, aged 55 years ; Union Township ; body 
not found. 

13. Mrs. Betsy Thorp, aged 48 years; Union Township ; 
body found. 

14. Charles Thorp, aged 14 years; Union Township; 
body found. 

15. Isaiah Thorp, Jr., aged 12 years ; Union Township ; 
body not found. 

16. John Thorp, aged 8 years ; Union Township ; body 
not found. 

17. Emma Thorp, aged 6 years ; Union Township ; body 
not found. 

18. Thomas Britton, aged 60 years; Union Township 
body found. 

19. Mrs. Mary Britton, aged 40 years ; Union Township 
body found. 

20. William Cutler, aged 15 years ; Union Township 
body found. 

21. Thomas Hunter, aged 40 years; Union Township 
body found. 

22. Mrs. Jane Hunter, aged 38 years ; Union Township 
body found. 

23. Agnes Hunter, aged 5 years ; Union Township 
body found. 

24. Polly Hunter, aged 3 years ; Union Township ; body 
found 

25. John Hunter, aged 14 months ; Union Township ; 
body not found. 

26. William Horsley, aged 29 years ; Union Township ; 
body found. 



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27. Mrs. Mary Horsley, aged 28 years ; Union Township ; 
body not found. 

28. Thomas Horsley, aged 5 years ; Union Township ; 
body not found. 

29. Lizzie Horsley, aged 3 years ; Union Township ; 
body not found. 

30. Mary M. Jones, aged 48 years ; Union Township ; 
body found. 

31. Mrs. Betsy Ferguson, aged TO years ; Lower St. 
Clair Township ; body found. 

32. Jacob Lutz, aged 50 years ; Beck's Run ; body 
found. 

33. Willie Hoover, aged 6 years ; George's Run ; body 
found. 

34. George Albreit, aged 1 years; George's Run ; body 
found. 

35. Mrs. E. Thorn, aged 30 j^ears ; Whiskey Run ; body 
found. 

36. Mrs. Stratton, aged 40 years 5 McLaughlin's Run ; 
body found. 

31. Rosanna Stratton, aged 14 years; McLaughlin's 
ilun ; body not found. 

38. Maggie Stratton, aged 12 years ; McLaughlin's Run ; 
body found. 

39. Hannah Stratton, aged 1 years ; McLaughlin's Run ; 
body found. 

40. John Stratton, aged 5 years; McLaughlin's Run; 
body found. 

41. Christopher Stratton, aged 3 years ; McLaughlin's 
Run ; body not found. 

42. William McClease, aged 45 years; McLaughlin's 
Run ; body found. 

43. Mrs. Isabella McClease, aged 42 years ; McLaughlin's 
Run ; body found. 

44. John G. McClease, aged 16 years ; McLaughlin's 
Run ; body found. 

45. William McClease, aged 12 years ; McLaughlin's 
Run ; body found. 

46. Rettie McClease, aged 4 years ; McLaughlin's Run ; 
body not found. 

47. Isaac Reemer (colored), aged 50 years ; Painter's 
Run ; body not found. 

In addition to the foregoing, the following died from the 
effects of exposure during the flood, 

Michael Sullivan, aged 40 years ; 30th Ward, Pittsburgh. 
Mrs. Hannah Getting, aged 60 years ; 35th Ward, Pitts- 
burgh. 



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Mrs. Mary Bennett, aged TO years ; Union Township. 

RECAPITULATION : 

Total drowned, , 47 

Died from exposure, ...... 3 



Total deaths, 50 

Bodies recovered of drowned, .... 32 

Bodies not recovered of drowned, . . .15 

Total, 4t 



GOKTRIBUTIOHS. 



j. B. Smitli c $ 100 00 

E. M. Kennedy 50 00 

D. O' Neill 100 00 

Harris & Ewing 50 00 

Wm. Park. 20 00 

Josiah Cohen - 15 00 

W. H. Graham.... 25 00 

John Mengel 25 00 

Michael Graver 100 00 

W. A. Rhodes -. 5 00 

John Fielding - 5 00 

Morrison Foster - 20 00 

Utilles Baird 20 00 

A. L. Pearson 20 00 

Pleasant Valley Ry. Co 100 00 

J. T. Stockdale 50 00 

T. & J. T. McCance 100 00 

John Dean 200 00 

Rev. W. H McMillen 20 00 

A. Martin & Co 100 00 

Hostetter & Smith 200 00 

John L. Davpes 25 00 

Beni. Dawes 10 00 

Geo'. Heideger & Co 35 00 

Josiah Locke 100 00 

W. A. Clemens 10 00 

J. T. Cooper 20 00 

George Lysle & Sons 100 00 

t>. T. Johnston 5 00 

David Gilmore 100 00 

L. &W. Neeb 100 00 

H. Acker 1 00 

iHiss G. Reynolds 5 00 

Miss Maggie Campbell 5 00 

Cash 5 00 

Captain John Rodgers 25 00 

John Berger 25 00 

Anthony Briegel , 25 00 

Cash 1 00 

f. A. «feM. P. R. W 500 00 

Huebeti Miller 25 00 

J. Boobyerj Jr 25 00 

Harty A. Keeb 10 00 

Meller & floene 100 00 

Meal Estate Loac and Trust Co 100 00 

Wm. Rowbottom 25 00 

S. A. Purviance 50 00 



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John Megtaw $ 100 00 

Wilson, Legcate & Co 100 00 

W. & H. AValker 200 00 

M. Atchison 5 OO 

S. H. Geyer, Esq 50 00 

W. B. Rodgers 50 00 

J. P. &R. H. Knox..... 100 00 

Commercial Banking Co., McKeesport 195 00 

A. Guckenheimer & Bros 100 00 

Whitmore, Wolf, Lane & Co. 100 00 

D. B. Allewelt 10 00 

Cash "E. C. C." 10 00 

Andrew Lvle 10 00 

G. W. Pusey & Co - 50 00 

James Brown 200 

John K. Brown 10 00 

Rev. Dr. Howard 10 00 

Morrison Underwood 50 00 

Wm. Paul 20 00 

James Irwin 10 00 

Shore, Vierheller & Burns 50 00 

Alf. Slack 10 00 

Employees Dixmont Hospital 23 00 

Young Men's Repubhcan Club 20 00 

H. Richey 50 00 

Lady in Baden 15 00 

W. B. Pusey 50 00 

R. B. Mowry 25 00 

Dr. J. H. Willard 20 00 

G. A. Uhle & Son 10 00 

Wm. McCreary 100 00 

'Employees of American Manufacturer 12 00 

Bissell & Co 100 00 

Sixth Ward Central Building Association 50 00 

George Webb 100 00 

W. Tate, Sr 50 00 

George B. McNulty 5 00 

Clarence W. Smart 5 00 

Cash 25 00 

H. Oppenheimer 5 00 

National Insurance Co. Allegheny 150 00 

McClintock & Co 100 00 

T. McClintock 20 00 

Rev. J. W. Witherspoon 25 00 

Subscriptions from Union National Bank, Pittsburgh 2,495 00 

Spencer & McKay. 100 00 

Captain Bier 50 00 

Collections Fourth Ward, Pittsburgh, from Gen, Joe. Brown, 851 00 

R. & W. Jenkinson 100 00 

"B. W." 2 00 

John Davidson 10 00 

Cecelia Manor Choir 25 00 

Francis Torrence 25 00 

Rev. J. L. Semple, New Castle 20 00 

"J. T. B." 20 00 

Spang, Chalfant & Co 200 00 

James Munden 35 00 

Jonathan Galagher 50 00 

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Adam Bepler, $ 50 00 

Humboldt Fire Insurance Co., Allegheny 200 GO 

Cash 5 00 

.Tas Lautner 50 00 

Henry Gerwig 35 00 

H. W. Kramer 5 00 

Conrad Stern 5 00 

P. Holderman 10 00 

Peter Herdt , 5 00 

C. Weir 5 00 

Samuel Graber ' 5 00 

H. H. Meyer 50 00 

M. Halzman 10 00 

A. Wiegand 1 00 

George Rohrig 3 00 

C. 0. Heckel 10 00 

T. Daeuble 3 00 

C. Seker 3 00 

Wm. Wessell 3 00 

P. Herman 5 00 

C. Zies 5 00 

George Hook 5 00 

Theop. KoUer 10 OO 

Philip Bauer - 3 00 

T. Seebick 5 00 

T. C. Schwarz 8 00 

C. Lies 5 00 

Louis Laub 2 00 

Charles Klopfer 10 00 

John Binder 5 00 

T. M. Hibler 5 00 

G. Freeborn 10 00 

D. Hallander 5 00 

E. T. Vogt 5 00 

John Featherstone 5 00 

Susan Rodgers 75 

Jacob Gratz 1 00 

J. W. Beose 5 00 

Henry Schulz 2 00 

Cash 3 00 

Rosa Newman 50 

H. Langhaus 10 00 

Cash 5 00 

H. Ruege 1 00 

Dennis Keller 1 00 

Daniel Miller 2 00 

Christ Schauer, Sr 5 00 

J. E. Bettner 5 00 

Franz Ely 5 00 

Lampert Knoth 5 00 

J. H. Stotz 10 00 

J. J. McDermitt 10 00 

W, Wanish 5 00 

R. Hendel 1 00 

Dr. H. Hechelman 10 00 

F. H. Eggers 20 00 

Peter Hild 5 00 

J. A. Moore 43 



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N. Anschutz & Son | 50 00 

Tutonia Insurance Co 300 00 

Collections from Workingmen's Saving Bank 440 00 

T. Hare & Br 50 GO 

Thomas M. Bayne 100 00 

Wm. A. Mcintosh 35 00 

Dr. A. Arthur's collection, at meeting in Municipal Hall 902 00 

J. Klee & Bro 50 on 

James Morgan 35 00 

S. Cadman & Son 35 00 

James Rynd 30 00 

Felix R. Brunot 100 00 

Samuel Grove 50 00 

Dr. John Cowden 10 00 

D. DeHaven & Son 100 00- 

Collections in Second Ward, L. H. Eaton 1C5 00 

W. W. Wright 3 00 

James McBrier 75 <'0 

Citizens' Oil Refinery 100 00 

J. Painter & Sons 100 00 

Cash 10 00 

" 5 00 

" 3 00 

Central Refining Co 100 00 

C. H Seggebreck 5 00 

Hugh McDonald 50 00 

John Rouey 100 00 

Cash 10 00 

John Titzell 5 00 

Robert McChesney 3 00 

C. C. Hussey 100 00 

James Lappan & Co 100 00 

P. Y. Hite 20G0 

J. M. Hemphill 20 00 

E. Fawsett 30 CO 

Cash 5 00 

" 25 00 

" 2 00 

George Dean, Agt 15 00 

Standard Oil Co 50 00 

C. W Benney 10 00 

Employees of Pittsburgh Manufacturing Co., Twelfth Ward, 

Pittsburgh 57 50 

Collections at First National Bank, Allegheny 2,295 00 

" Bank of Industry 51100 

Wm. Dillworth, Jr 50 00 

J. A. McKee «& Son 50 00 

James Richey 25 00 

David Elliott 25 00 

Collections at Court House, Pittsburgh 822 00 

F. Gwinner 50 00 

Dr. B. B. Smith 10 00 

John F. Graham 20 00 

Alston & Mowry 30 00 

Collections in Fourth Ward, H. Gerwig 170 00 

G. B. Perkins, Lock Haven 10 00 

J. Groetzinger, Eighth Ward Collections 424 40 

Peter Walther, Jr 25 00 



5? 

Cast.... I 5" OK? 

" 1 00* 

t). Bolgie. 5 00' 

Mrs. Moll 5 00 

fos. Gordon. . 1 00» 

A. Enniff 1' 00' 

Ph. Paulin , 1 OC? 

F. & W. I3eckert.......... 10 00' 

A. G. Ehler 2 00- 

ti. C. Rehieman. 50 00" 

A. Holstien 50 00* 

G. Steinagle. 5 00' 

Cash SOO' 

" 1 00- 

•i'hilii) Durand 5 00> 

F. H. Kirker 5 00' 

Jacob Gutman ■ 5 00* 

A Ibert Lutton ... 5 00* 

fiolmes, Lafferfcy & Co ■ 150 00" 

S. B. Hedger. 25 00 

East Liberty StocJc Yard Co 50 00" 

Orr & Williams 10 00 

IVatson & Briggs 25 OO 

M. Ulman 5 00 

Hazelwood & Blackstock. . . - 25 00> 

% 1. Smith 5 00 

t R. Rush , . . . V 5 00 

George Smith 5 00 

Hamilton, Loughery & Co 10 00 

J. B. Huff 10 00 

L. Lowenstein ......,.<......., 5 00 

Henry Ersman 10 00 

Julius Volter 50 00 

Wtn. Maul 5 00 

Alexander Greenwa^t - 35 00 

W< M. Darlington 100 00 

Cash 2 00 

j. H.' Jones 3 00 

R. W. Armstrong 5 00 

Sol. Stien, N. Y 100 00 

Fulton, Walker & Co., Philadelphia 100 00 

W. H. Barnes 50 00 

Mrs. Leek 2 00 

bev. R. Phelan 25 00 

Wm. Boyd & Son 100 00 

Lacock, Hawthorn & Irwin 20 00 

" " " employees 1100 

L. C. Colborn, Sec'y, Somerset, Pa 50 00 

Carnegia, Kloman & Co 200 00 

Bailiff & Brown 50 00 

McConway, Torbey & Co 100 00 

Jefferson Jeffrey 5 00 

W. S. Purviance 25 00 

Byers, McCuUough & Co 300 00 

D. F. Agnew 10 00 

R. McKnight 10 00 

Mrs. Frazier 5 00 

Cash "J. P. K." 1000 



29 

Cash "W. H." •. $ 5 00 

Fifth Avenue Bank 100 00 

Richardis & Hartley 35 00 

R. W. Pear 25 00 

W. S. Pear 15 00 

Wm. McMasters 15 00 

Samuel Schleep 2 00 

Wm. Messingham 2 00 

John Fox 5 00 

Cash 1 00 

Nick Toerge 1 00 

James Fricker 1 00 

C. Hindman 1 00 

P. Pfoff 1 00 

J. G. Klaus 5 00 

Henry Kratz 1 00 

John Anderson 1 00 

George Binfeng 3 00 

Mike Robitzer 1 00 

J. W. Craig 5 00 

Cash 1 50 

Smith & Bro 5 00 

J. Fluke 1 00 

Cash 50 

C. Taylor 1 00 

C. Beckert 5 00 

C.W. Gerwig 5 00 

L. Dressell 6 00 

Chas. Guth 2 00 

S. S. Friedly 2 00 

C. F. Haller 5 00 

A. Gernert 1 00 

John Hansen. 1 00 

C. Freebitheiser 3 00 

M. A. Haller 3 00 

Cash 3 00 

MillhoUand 10 00 

A. Brockman 3 00 

F. D. Geist 5 00 

W. T. W 2 00 

A. Jenkins 2 00 

A Wetzel 5 00 

Lewis Urich 1 00 

John Griffin 1 00 

Samuel Wilsoc 1 00 

George Heaps & Bro ; 5 00 

H. McMaster 5 00 

Henry White 5 00 

C. Burgman 2 00 

Cash 50 

J. A. Koerner 3 00 

F. Kiser 5 00 

C. Steffen 5 00 

Charles Nelson 2 00 

L. Burkowitz.,.- 5 00 

G. Reussing 2 00 

Henry Rost 1 00 

Kibler & White 10 00 

6 



30 

Thomas Neely $ 10 00 

Joseph Caskey 10 00 

John M. Kennedy 15 00 

Thomas D. Owens 10 00 

Daniel Kenzer 5 00 

C. Magee 10 00 

W. H. McClelland , 5 00 

Thomas Mabon 50 00 

Henry Carspeckeu 20 00 

G. H. Gladhill 5 00 

T. S. McKinnell 30 00 

Collections at Union National Bank 3,839 75 

South Side Savings Bank 100 00 

Joseph Walton 35 00 

John Heath : 100 00 

Eobert Boyle ; 1 00 

J. Benswanger 5 00 

F. L. Gross 5 ('0 

Cash 5 00 

J. A. Gilleland 10 00 

Isaac Stewart 30 00 

Cash 3 00 

John Gensler 3 00 

W. K. West 5 00 

C. Granet 8 00 

F. Altvater 3 00 

Daniel C. Hamilton 5 00 

Eobert Lee 30 00 

Wm. Euwer 1 00 

H. Johnson 1 00 

Mrs. C. Heusner 5 00 

A. E. McCann & Co 5 00 

Walter Bryant, Philadelphia 100 00 

G. W. MuUin, Cresson, Pa., subscriptions from Guests and 

Employees Mountain House 153 50 

Duquesne Greys 300 00 

Pennsylvania Salt Manufacturing Co., Philadelphia 500 00 

Citizens Manor Station, Pa 131 35 

B. C. & J. H. Sawyer 35 00 

Charles Hetzel 5 00 

H. F. Bernhorst 5 00 

George Schmidt 10 00 

G. H. Dieiker 5 00 

H. F. Ehlers 5 00 

John Keown 5 00 

Thomas Megraw 10 00 

Wm. Langcamp, Sr 10 00 

Louis Mattern 35 00 

Cash 15 00 

C. Kenneweg 5 00 

Peter Lentz , 2 00 

Wm. McKinney & Son 25 00 

D. Mohrhofe 10 00 

Mrs. Decrocker 5 00 

Joseph Weaver 10 00 

H. Liekert 3 00 

J. M. Blair 3 00 

F. Winz 3 00 



Balsley & Lutton $ 20 00 

James Lockhart 20 00 

A. B. Hoelcher 2 00 

John Rentz 10 00 

Cash 10 00 

8. P. Harbison 10 00 

Hamilton, Lemon, Arnold ■& Co 100 00 

Fred Helm 20 00 

€. L. Magee 100 00 

H. V<.ibrechts 20.00 

J. Jamison 5 00 

H. M. McNeill, Jr 5 00 

James T. Scott, Ne w York 50 00 

John Wilson 5 00 

David Murry 5 00 

Adam Fisher 5 00 

W. H. Saints 5 00 

Thomas Ross 2 25 

A. Jamison 2 00 

Wm, Reed 2 00 

James Caskey 2 00 

James Wilson 2 00 

John Kradle 1 ' 

Eddie Wright 50 

Johnny McNeill 2 25 

Joseph Marlatt 1 00 

John Enterman 2 00 

John Dickson 3 00 

Logan, Gregg & Co., Allegheny 50 GO 

H. Ahlers 10 00 

H. Sibert &Co.. 50 00 

G. S. H... 20 00 

A. Weineman 10 00 

A. W 10 00 

Employees Allegheny Gas Co 108 40 

Henry Lambert Lodge 25 00 

D. Cowley 5 00 

Collected by A. Slack in Second Ward, Allegheny 28 00 

James O'Conner, by hands of D. CNeill 25 00 

G. Koarnel 3 (0 

Collections from First National Bank, 'Allegheny 276 00 

Wm. Swindell ". 20 00 

H. Harrison 5 00 

Personal Liberty Club, Stuebenville, Ohio '. 100 00 

John B. EUison & Sons, Philadelphia 100 00 

R. A. Wright, N. Y 50 00 

Thompson & Miller 20 00 

Mr. Bidwell 20 00 

C. C. Boyle ^ 50 00 

H. Woodsides 10 00 

Andreas Schlote 10 00 

P. Lange 2 00 

H. L. Hoburg 3 cO 

A. L. Robinson 50 00 

Mary Ann Robinson 50 00 

James D, Robinson 50 00 

H. Omslaer 10 00 

James L. Graham 50 00 



g2 

H. L. McCuUough $ 100 Od 

James B. Orr 10 00 

D. Macferron 10 OO 

J. H. Aiken 10 00 

R. Donaldson 5 00 

John McCowan 3 00 

George C. Corutbers 2 00 

W. A. Edebnrtt 10 00 

John McCallister, Pliiladelphia 50 00 

S. B. Bausman 10 00 

Mis. McKeown 11 00 

St. Stephen's Protestant Episcopal Church, Sewickley 83 35 

Cash .w 3 00 

M. R. Trevor, Philadelphia 20 00 

James Dobie 10 00 

G. H. Myers 10 00 

Charles Staehr - 5 00 

E* F. McElroy 5 00 

Otto Helmbold - 5 00 

J. Doelbore 2 00 

C. Roth 3 00 

M. Maxer 1 00 

G. Roth 1 00 

G. Bartholine 1 00 

j. Scheck 1 00 

W. P. Lewis 5 00 

John Dingel 1 00 

S. W. H. Martin.. 30 00 

George Klingelhoffer 5 00 

C. C. Kohne 6 00 

Timothy O'Brien 5 00 

Jos. Jordon 1 00 

Paul-Browfi 1 00 

John George. ..,, 1 00 

j. C. Berger 3 00 

X. Warpillot 1 35 

John Glair. 1 00 

Cash : : 5 00 

F. Kirsh 1000 

Employees Standard Oil Company. . . * 50 50 

James Marshall 100 00 

Employees of M. Graver 33 00 

Livingston Bros * 35 00 

Warden & Oxnard 35 00 

Jacob H. Walter. 50 00 

Armstrong, FawCett & McKelvy 50 00 

James Atkinson. , * . . . . » 5 00 

Isaac Tavior 35 00 

Lusk & Raynor 25 00 

L. S. White & Co 20 00 

Robert Patton. 15 00 

James Catnpbell. ......* 10 00 

J. P. Farley 5 00 

John Hutchinson 5 00 

Mrs. Hare 5 00 

R. R. Ingram 5 00 

J. M. Graham 3 00 

Fowler & Skeel 3 00 



Wm. H. Yoting ., $ 2 Ot) 

David Ewing 3 GU 

Mrs. Riley 1 00 

Wm. Crider . 1 00 

Frank Rully ..>..., 1 00 

Wm. Leazier , . . . , 100 

G. A. Wore SO 

Cash 11 00 

Bierraan, Heidelberg & Co ■. 50 00 

Haines & Sheibler , 100 00 

Fleming & Oglevee - , 50 00 

J. H. Demmler 5€ (jO 

Bovard, Rose & Co 50 00 

White, Orr & Co 50 00 

Morganstern & Co 25 00 

W. G. Hoover 20 00 

JSr. Whiting & Co 20 00 

,1. R. Reed & Co 20 00 

Demmler Bros 30 00 

G. M. Zweidinger 20 00 

Shipton & Wallace 100 €0 

J. H. Hill 25 00 

D. Leet Wilson 10 00 

S. MeClurkan 10 00 

Grove & Bair 10 00 

H. McCallum 50 00 

G. H. Dauler & Sons. , . . 30 00 

S. S. Holland 10 00 

W. E. Stieren 15 00 

John Ressler 10 00 

P. Gallisath 10 00 

C. Schultz 5 00 

Auday & Allison 25 00 

Gray, Possiel & Reese 50 00 

Bailey, Farrell & Co 50 00 

O. Hoffield 20 00 

Mrs; C. Blume 20 00 

A. B. Bihlman 20 00 

0. H. Dietrich 10 00 

S. Baerman 10 00 

W. K. McCance 10 00 

Campbell, Williamson & Dick 10 00 

Thomas J. Gallaher 10 00 

C. Schlegel 10 00 

H. Knoebel .- 10 00 

Mary Gesh 10 00 

Peter Kolbecker 10 00 

D. Sims 10 00 

C. Zugsmith 5 00 

Cash 10 00 

Sebastion Deep 5 00 

John Hall 10 00 

H. Leisy 10 00 

Renzenhausen & Bier 5 00 

H. Hammer 5 00 

P. Wolf. 3 00 

S. Harris 2 00 

H. Hyman 5 00 



34 

A. Hanis $ 5 00 

J. C. Michel 5 00 

D. J. Portzer 5 00 

C. Schlegel 5 00 

S. Brehm 5 00 

B. Bartberger 5 00 

A. Withauer 5 00 

W. Green 5 00 

Otto Helmbold 5 00 

Cash 4 00 

" 5 00 

J. W. McFariand 10 00 

James McDonald 10 00 

N. Miller 10 00 

W. C. Gray 30 00 

Mrs. W. A. McDowel, Uniontown 5 00 

By A. Wiese, Robert C. Loomis 35 00 

Harmony Lodge, No. 32, Good Fellows 35 00 

J. A. Hetzel 5 00 

Milton Jones 5 00 

Richard Hartje 5 00 

Christ Glockler 1 00 

South Common M. E. Church S2 00 

Henry A. Meese 5 00 

George Deimling 3 00 

F. W. Wallace 15 00 

N. P. Hatch 5 00 

J. D. Sculley and T. W. Davis, collectors 23d Ward, Pitts. . 3!3 00 

G. F. Fisher and J. Groetzingei, collectors 8th Ward, Alleg'y, 396 75 

Conrad Eberhart 35 00 

DeZonche & Co 15 00 

J. D. Layng • 25 00 

Cash 100 00 

Collection of J. Hipply, 4th Ward 370 00 

Atmore & Son, Philadelphia 100 00 

J. Clark 3 00 

C. B. King c 3 00 

James Walker ^ CO 

R. S. Hope 5 00 

Wm. Allen 5 00 

AVm. McFadden 1 00 

James McFadyean 1 00 

Mrs. Roder 1 00 

A. Walken 5 00 

Cash 5 00 

" 325 

James Graham 30 00 

A. Forse 5 00 

G. Alexander 5 00 

J. McElroy 2 00 

A Lady 5 00 

Townsend, Whelen & Co., Philadelphia 100 00 

W. Hasskarl 3 50 

A Friend 3 00 

Robert Sa-an 20 00 

M. Sterrett 5 00 

John Voegtly 30 00 

Fred. Sanders 10 00 



35 

Clirist Bauii $ 10 00 

Wui. Sander 1 00 

H. M. Long 25 00 

Wm. Hook 1 00 

J. M. Gillespie 1 00 

Wm. Reel 1 00 

D. Robinson & Bros 20 00 

Wm. McCorabs 3 00 

John Heiin 1 00 

Pe er Heim 1 00 

A. Biethauer ; 5 00 

Wm. Falk 2 00 

Peter Miller 3 00 

T. Self 3 00 

F. Andressen 5 00 

M. Hartung 1 00 

F. Demler 2 00 

Jacob Portman 2 50 

F. Beck. 2 00 

David Sterritt 10 00 

B. Barker 100 

H. Kenleine 2 00 

J. Renewalt 4 00 

J. Eisenbeich 5 00 

John A. Ley 4 00 

John Hiessner , 1 00 

J. Myer 1 00 

Fred. Herzberger 3 00 

J. G. Smith 5 00 

F. Sheidle 2 50 

Chris. Bredhauer 5 00 

Benj. Sherer 1 00 

Mrs. Gorbey 2 00 

John Shaler 20 00 

J. Marberger 1 00 

Wm. Allen 1 00 

F. Summer 2 00 

H. Miller 1 00 

W. H. Rodenbach 5 00 

John Smith 2 00 

Wm. Muchle 1 00 

Frank Devine 2 00 

John Roth 1 00 

Henry Wild 3 00 

Wm Dunlap 1 00 

P. Feldman .' 3 00 

John King 5 00 

John Keyser 2 00 

Aug. Sheno 2 OO 

J. Berkbergher 1 00 

John Kettenbach 50 

John Millfreitz 1 50 

P. Eckert 25 

John Downey 2 00 

John Polocker 50 

Jos. Huss 1 00 

John Ray 25 

Wm. Dillman 2 00 



t)'an'iel Burns. ,..^.. f 5 00 

John Berringer 1 00 

j. Leighenthall 1 00* 

Henry Ketty • 100" 

James Sarber • 5Qf 

John Ford •• 50 

P. Schnabel 1 00 

G. Aldinger 5 00 

Wm, Reynolds -• - 1 00* 

Robert Wright 1 OO 

ifohn Rauft 1 00 

Collections at German National Bank, Pittsburgh , . . . 5,483 80 

Jacob Neely 10 00 

Citizans East Palestine, Ohio 140 85 

Lodge 656, I. O. O. F., Belle Vernon, Pa 10 00 

Collections at Manchester Savings Bank 140 00 

Atterbury & Co 50 OO 

Atterbiiry & Co.'s Employees -. 36 00 

Doole & Co 5000 

Struutz & Wenzel 50 OO 

A. & D. H. Chambers , 100 00 

J. Lewis' machine shop 45 50 

A. Garrison & Co 50 00 

George Duncan & Sons ,.,...,.. 35 00 

Thomas Coffin & Co 50 00 

Chahinor, Hogan & Co 50 00 

Bakewell, Pears & Co 50 00 

D. H. Chambers 5 00 

H. Spreen 10 00 

J. M. Schafer 10 00 

L. Schmidt 5 00 

G. Stengle 7 00 

V. Frobil 5 00 

H. J. Ulrich - 5 00 

Cash 4 00 

P. Lauch 5 00 

B. Brosie 2 00 

C. Vogley 1 00 

C. J. Schultz 20 00 

P. Phile 1 00 

F; W. Jenkins 1 00 

Mary Fisher 1 00 

B. Wolf 5 00 

P. F. Schuchman 5 00 

J. W. Geaup 5 00 

F. Ackman 2 00 

E* Hagerly 1 00 

Cash 1 00 

F. G. Krehan 10 00 

Mrs. Jedico 1 00 

H. Preibe 5 00 

H. Hartman B 00 

Lewis, Oliver & Philips' Employees 146 15 

Byers, McCuUough & Co.'s Employees 164 00 

A. Garrison & Co.'s Employees 15 25 

Cash 5 00 

F. Ludel 1 00 

IL Newhaser 2 00 



37 

■James Kearns $ 1 00 

F. Schmuiik 5 00 

Thomas Miller; 5 00 

M. Walsh : 1 00 

Voelkiier & Bitnei- 1 Oq 

P. E. Fisher 2 00 

M. Feidler 1 '00 

D. C. Ripley 5 00 

Charles Evans 10 00 

Steinhaser & Osterick •. , 5 00 

Richard Sthe^e 5 00 

Dr. Thomas 5 GO 

J. F. Hays 5 00 

A. C. Hays 5 00 

Challinor, Hogan & Co.'s Employees 19 00 

Collections at First National Bank, Allegheny 290 00 

Dr. Henderson 10 00 

W. F. Casey 10 00 

J. Benedict 3 OO 

A. Gibson 1 Ou 

George Watkins 5 00 

G. Blayney ". . . . 3 00 

Cash 1 00 

John Russell 5 00 

John Magee 1 OO 

T. Kenna 5 00 

John McDonald 20 00 

M. H. W., Philadelphia, through H. J. Lynch 25 00 

S. A. W 5 00 

Mrs. Booth 5 dO 

McCoKl & Co 100 00 

Charles F. Schwartz , 50 00 

Mrs. C. F. Schwartz 5 00 

Widow M. A^interhalter 5 00 

T. Altscheel & Co., New York 10 00 

Ceoi ge Beorn 5 ( iO 

Wm. Beorn 1 00 

E. Hope 1 00 

Jane McFarland 1 00 

Jane Boggs 50 

Lizzie Boggs 50 

Sadie Reed 1 00 

L. Glendenning , 1 00 

R. Anderson 1 00 

M. Dunlap 1 00 

S. Cozad : .' 50 

Faumy Maginnis 1 00 

Mary Lodge 50 

Mrs. Burgess 1 00 

" A. W. Black 50 00 

' Samuel Allender 10 00 

" L. A. Finley 10 00 

" Dr. S. A. Sterrett 5 00 

" A. Rodgers 5 00 

♦• W. M. Gormley 5 00 

" Craig 2 00 

" Miller ". 2 00 

" Thompson 3 00 



Cash f ^59 

J. 81iellaberger 10 OO 

Casli 40 OO 

Collected by James Irwin, in 2d Ward, Pittsburgh , 1,.950 OO 

S. 8. Childi'en. of Cliurcli of the Ascension, Wellsville,. O. 10 00" 

Heafth & Home, Collectors, 5th Ward, Allegheny 187 00' 

Collected iu 36tlx Waid, Hersberger and Vieihellery c(ds 233 25 

" 7th Ward, Allegheny, J.. LofiuK, collector 383 CO" 

" at U nion National Bank, Pittsburgh 784 49- 

S. A. Espey 5 00 

David Ritchie 50 00" 

Collected by F. Kunz, Reserve Township, (upper end) 62 Ol^- 

Andiew Frazier 5 00' 

Uri Updegratf, Westmoreland Co., Pa 5(i 00> 

T. A. Wright... 5 00' 

Collections by Dr. Jacob Ahl, 10th Ward Pittsbiwgh §24 75. 

Cash, Lebanan, Pa 2 00' 

Employees Old City Water Works, Pittsburgh 100 OOi 

Lodge 38, A. O. U. W., Pittsburgh 11 00" 

Collections by L. H. Eaton, 2d Ward 71 50 

Mr. Meinhardt 5 OO 

Proceeds of Conjcert given by the Allegheny Quartette Club, 

in North Avenue M. E. Church 562 30 

M. M . 50O 

W. Wilson, East Liverpool 1 OO 

Miss Leech 5 00 

Employees A. V. R. R., cor. 11th and Pike sts. E. W. Coombe 10 00 

J.M.Hall 5 00 

C. E. Price 5 00 

F. E. Volz 500 

J. B.Stewart 5 00 

W. E. Hoke 5 0O 

J. A. Smith 2 00 

J. W. Reinhardt 5 00 

A. G. Phillips 2 00 

E. D. Nettleton 5 00 

F. E. Nettleton 5 00 

H. F. Blackstone 5 00 

S. H. Jackson 5 00 

A. T. Rowaud 5 00 

A. H. Rowand, Jr 5 00 

Wm Phillips, Jr 5 00 

Thomas R. French 2 OO 

H. B. Waring 3 OO 

Thomas E. Gamble 2 00 

A. J. Armstrong 3 00 

Charles H. Gubert 3 00 

T. A. Rowand 3 00 

W. A. Hemmick 2 00 

John Blair 5 00 

H . Blackstone 10 00 

Cash 500 

R. B. Reynolds 5 00 

Thomas Johnson 3 00 

Charles Miller 5 00 

Lodge 840, L O. O. F., Greensburg, Pa 13 00 

Castle No. 65, A. O. K., of the M. C, of Greensburg, Pa. . . . 10 00 

Jos. Papert 5 00 



€o]lected in Richland Township $ 42 00 

Neshannock U. P. Church, Lawrence Co. , Pa 38 00 

Thomas McDitt 3 00 

Rev. J. M . Jamison, Hopedale, 5 00 

German Savings Bank, Allegheny 2,474 96 

Collections from Workingman's Saving Bank 63 00 

Dan Rice 10 00 

Citizens of Saxonburg, Butler Co., two packs clothing and.. . 89 35 

S. Lessbei-ger 20 (;0 

Hugh McNeill 100 00 

Collected from First National Bank, City 31 50 

Frazier Bros 50 00 

Collected in 8th Ward, Allegheny 203 70 

" 7th " Pittsburgh, Butler and Dougiess, cols., 484 90 

C. J. C 2 00 

Balance of a, Benevolence Fund, subscribed by Citizens of 

Greensburg, through H, Arters, 61 00 

German American Insurance Co., of New York 50 00 

Niagara Fire Insurance Co., Ne jv York 50 00 

Arrott & Lockhart 100 00 

Employees Isabella Furnace Co 57 00 

W. E. Schmertz & Co 100 00 

Renvers & Co 20 00 

Totten & Co 75 00 

Employees Spang, Chalfant & Co 170 75 

Pennsylvania Central R. R..... 5,000 00 

M. E. Church, Port Perry 6 00 

George Wolf - 5 00 

B. Preston 20 00 

Collections 7th Ward, Allegheny 22 60 

Collections at New Water Works, Pittsburgh, per Joseph 

Lowrie 434 25 

Mr. Murray 25 00 

A. M. Bryan 5 00 

M. Tierney 5 00 

Wm. McCleery. 75 00 

Wm. Glenn 10 00 

G. M. Sayers • 2 00 

Mr. Pinkerton 1 00 

Mr. Alexander 5 00 

Mr. Tyler 2 00 

Mr. Miller 5 00 

'"W.," Iowa 50 

Collections Union National Bank, Pittsburgh 502 10 

German Evangelical Church, Etna Boro 35 ( 

Everson, McCrum & Co., 6th Ward .- 100 00 

W. T. Farlev 5 00 

Cash ." 2 00 

Rigdon 2 00 

A. W 10 00 

From Benefit given at Trimble's Varieties Theatre , . 366 75 

Proceeds of Concert given by J ohn Burgess 101 25 

Cash 10 00 

German Reformed Church, Columbus, 56 65 

Sharpsburg and Etna Saving Bank 50 00 

J. H. Mueller .' , 10 00 

Jacob Kiessling 2 00 

Joseph Johnson 1 00 



40 

CoTIectioins at Gei-man National^ Bank, Pittsbargli f 8fI3T 

Eliza Sibbet 25 00 

Cash 1 OO 

H. Brook 5 00 

John Weisser ' . . . 2 OO 

f'roceeds of Entertainment given by 4th Ward Lj'ceum Alle- 
gheny, at Masonic Hall , 287 23: 

Collections from First National Bank, Allegheny 27 ol> 

" at Anchar Savings Bank 5,650 63^ 

Fulton, Sons & Co '. 25 i 

John Bauss 10 OO 

Rev. W. J. Robinson 20 00 

Mrs. Elizabeth Agnew 100 

P. Fay 2 00 

J. P. Alexander 1 00 

John Bingler 1 00 

C. C. Rinehart 5 OO 

Hon. George H. Anderson 5 00 

R. Detars 5 OO 

David McCargo 5 00 

Rev. J. S. Sterchel 5 OO- 

R. B. Robinson 5 00 

Mrs, E. Morrison 10 00 

Mahoning Baptist Church, per J. Wilson 7 00 

James Cnldwell 100 00 

Collections by Fred. Thomas, 6th Waid, City 151 00 

Ebevhart & Ober 50 00 

Proceeds of a Fair held Ly three little girls, 2d Ward, City. . 21 75 

Orange Society of Pittsburgh, by Jas. Milligan & Wm. Scott, 88 03 

John C. Brown 50 00 

C. J. ^., Pittsburgh 5 OO 

Union Savings and Deposit Bank, South Side 50 OO 

P. J. Asungavan 5 OO 

South Side Insurance Co 50 00 

Sankey Bros 50 00 

Mercer & Burke 5 00 

McKain Bros 5 00 

A. D. Clark 5 00 

E. Rohrkaste 5 OO 

J. W. Patterson, Jr 2 00 

W. G. Stewart • • • • 5 00 

Archy Glasgow 5 00 

Cash 2 00 

Harmony Lodge, A. O. U. W 2.) 00 

John Merriman 2 50 

John McCurry 2 50 

L. Brickler 2 20 

John 0. Edwards 2 00 

Collections Smithfield Savings Bank, Pittsburgh 470 00 

" in 6th Ward, Allegheny, by F. Thomas 50 50 

•' 9th Ward, Pittsburgh 1.006 00 

Richard E. Park 5 00 

Isaac Stern 5 00 

Wm. Rankin & Sons, Glasgow, Scotland, per Armstrong Bros. 16 75 

Portland, Oregon 1 00 

A Friend ' 10 00 

Cash 400 00 

" 3 00 

Cash collected by E. R. Donehoo, '^^'■^ ^^ 

Total cash collections. |63,395 81 



DlSBtrES:EME:NTS. 



Arant Geo ..... , $ 40 Ob 

Arnold Belle 50 00 

Artz Rudolph 370 00 

Aber John 100 00 

Amraond Mrs 55 00 

Altmus Mrs. Frederick 10 0*6 

Auth Josephine •'•'•' ••...... 10 00 

Antley Matthew .-. ^ .-. 10 dO 

Auburn Mrs .-. .-. 220 00 

Agent Geo , 80 00 

Albrecht Karl ^ . . 250 00 

Anton Amelia , . 100 00 

Ashworth Samuel 200 0<^ 

feoud Lafayette 30 00 

Benser Valentine .....'. , 800 00 

Baura Nicholas 140 00 

iJobst Jacob , 50 00 

Baldin^er F. 250 00 

Bert & Son ... 100 00 

Breningen 'thos. . 200 00 

Beck Edward 60 00 

Blind John & Co 50 0i9 

Blind John v 50 00 

Bergman Mrs. •...,..... 250 00 

Bolster Peter.... 420 00 

feerkem Frederick. 20 00 

Bowers Wm 10 00 

Brobst Anton 10 00 

Bonner Mary 75 00 

Bowers Gotlieb. , 75 00 

Biessick Jos 90 00 

Beilstein Adam -. 40 00 

Beilstein J. F. , ...... 200 00 

Backen Christ 60 00 

Baer John 200 00 

iBolland D. A. . . 25 00 

Bew Thos. ' 50 00 

feittner Stephen 50 00 

Baumer Casper 25 Oq 

teelep Erniest 30 00 

iButclier David 20 00 

Bert George, Jr 50 00 

BoyerG. W 15 00 

Brentley Mrs 10 00 

Bowers Mrs. Mary 50 00 

Berberick Frederick , 150 00 



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BetzJohn $ 100 OO 

Burgess Adam 75 00 

Barker Mrs 150 00 

Bittner John 70 00 

Buekley John 15 00 

Bronson Mrs 25 00 

Bergman John ■ 25 00 

Beckfield F^ H 150 00 

Bahle Jacob 75 00 

Brenen Elizabeth 40 00 

Brenen Margaret 25 00 

Barber Wm 20 00 

Bertser Chas 30 00 

Behm Johr 100 00 

Babst Geo 10 00 

Berger Geo 25 00 

Buehly John 15 00 

Beecber Wm 150 00 

Breining Christ 200 00 

Bond Lay 30 00 

Charles John 20 00 

CulihanMrs 30 00 

Callman Adam , 20 00 

Christy John 40 00 

Conlon Hugh 100 00 

Cooper Sarah 58 00 

Curtin Mrs. Mary 20 00 

Coulton James 75 00 

Connolly Peter 60 00 

Cleary Ellen 35 00 

Christ Adam 50 00 

Craig Margaret 20 00 

Collins Tom 100 00 

Combs Margaret 15 00 

Creery Mary 20 00 

Cowan Mary 20 00 

Connelly Geo 60 00 

Churchiiill B 50 00 

Condy Paul 250 00 

Coucher Wm 25 00 

Conley Mrs. Geo 30 00 

Conlon Neil ICO 00 

Crosey Mary 10 00 

Clark Mrs 20 00 

Cook Mrs. H. M 20 00 

Caughey Mary 25 00 

Canham W. R 50 00 

Carouthers Nancy 25 00 

Davis Andrew 15 00 

Doerflinger Conrad 65 00 

Doenhiem F • 150 00 

Dickey Mrs . 120 00 

Dalmeyer Wm 50 00 

Domberger Geo 150 00 

Daier Simon 100 00 

Donnelly Ed 20 00 



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Dorst Martin , | gOO fO 

Denhard Christ 75 00 

Dishingjer E 50 00 

Dillon Luke 80 00 

Devine Thos , 40 00 

Dicks Henrietta 10 00 

Davis Richard 20 00 

Daw EUzabeth 45 00 

Derbyshire Sarah 45 00 

Doyle Elizabeth 25 00 

Donivan Mary 20 00 

Davis Lewis 40 CO 

Deitch Wm 200 00 

Dierdorf W 20 00 

Durell Wm 20 00 

Davis D. D 60 00 

Engel John 100 00 

Erck Fer'd 250 00 

Ellsessor Adolph 50 00 

Ehrhard E 40 00 

Evans Sarah 10 00 

Eckstein Michael .• 200 00 

Emrick Philip 75 00 

Erb Jacob 50 00 

Evans David 100 00 

Eagan Geo 20 00 

Fry Mary 10 00 

Finkhonse R 15 00 

Filinger Jos 200 00 

Fisher Mrs. Mene 100 00 

Fuchs John E 250 00 

Friemuth Mrs. Kate 110 00 

Falk Mrs. Wm 50 00 

France Conrad, Jr 150 00 

Flocker Mrs. Thomas 150 00 

Fritch Lewis 75 00 

!^airman Annie 100 00 

Fleming Margaret. 15 00 

Flaherty Patrick 50 00 

Fletcher Jane 20 00 

Fumey Julia 4i> 00 

Furguson Mary Jane 10 00 

Forest Wm 50 (!0 

Freymuth Chas 20 00 

Freese Elizabeth 50 00 

Frost Jas 15 00 

Frew Benj 100 00 

Fortenbach Jacob 125 00 

Fortenbach Wm 37 00 

Farth Mrs. Wm 100 00 

Frederick G. G 150 00 

Franz Conrad, Sr 200 00 

Friskorn Wm 90 00 

Fichter Christ 100 00 

Fichter Philip. 75 CO 



u 

Fehl Casper $ lOtf 0(P 

Franklin Mrs. Margaret 50 OO 

Fisher Peter 90 00^ 

Furman Wm. Aidrea^. 30 00' 

Geiger Max . . v j . . w . . . . v ..... 100 00' 

Gipperich Mr. and Mrs. . ^ ^ „...*. 140 00 

Glatzell Mrs 100 00 

Center Mary .......... - 15 dO 

Geltz Mrs. Catharine. ' 10 0^ 

Geisler Henry. 250 OO 

Galescheok Martin. . , 25 00 

Gailieh John ......... 125 00 

Grimpe Gotlieb 100 00 

Gormer Mrs. Wm. . . .... 50 00 

Gerty John 20 00 

Gilg Peter : 50 00 

GerLer Mrs. C 50 00 

Glomser Geo 100 00 

Glassey Rudulph 65 00 

Gorman Mrs. John 250 00 

Green Michael 60 00 

Goodner Edward - 170 00 

Graham John. ....;...;.... 75 00 

Gallagher Catharine 10 00 

Geltz Mary 100 00 

Gimber Chas. 50 00 

Graham Catharine 10 00 

Gottlieb Gelz 150 00 

Gait Maria ^ . . i 10 00 

Gerst Mrs. Philip .....; 200 00 

Guckert Henry 20 00 

Gorman Thos 20 00 

Grant Edward 30 00 

Grant Michael ; 30 00 

Gimper Henry. . . » 120 00 

Garies Geo. * ; ,,.... 250 00 

Heim Daiiiel. ......; ; * , . 65 OO 

Heckel C 150 00 

Hartman .Tohn ; . . . ; ;..... 150 00 

Hill Eliza 10 00 

Henninger Mrs ^. 150 00 

Harver B 200 00 

Hock Chist 145 00 

Helfred H 20 00 

Hess Mrs. Henty. 200 00 

Hentzell Mrs ......;.;.........;. ; . 80 OO 

Hohman Maria. 70 00 

Harre John ........; ..;................;.... 125 00 

Henney Edward ...........; 150 00 

Hibster Jos .........;.;;....;..;.............;.;.;. 100 00 

Hademann Wm. 300 00 

JHalderman Chas. 200 OO 

feafelr Mrs 15 00 

Harrison Jane 50 00 

Haley Patrick 40 00 



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Hock John | So DO 

Hays Christ 10 00 

Huffman Catharine. 35 00 

Hapf Frank 225 00 

Heinzinger Henry 10 00 

Hilleugas Jacob 10 00 

Hoffman Casper 25 00 

Hoffman Philip 125 00 

Herrou Francis . 70 00 

Huber John 50 00 

Huckenstien Peter 200 00 

Huffman Mrs. Justine 50 00 

Herbert Leopold 100 00 

Huckenstein Jos 100 00 

Hanzel Jos 70 00 

Hiesler Jos 50 00 

Herding V 50 00 

Held Theo 80 OG 

Harter Nubert 50 00 

Heckler Daniel 200 00 

Heberlv John 150 00 

Hock John 150 00 

Hengberger Agnes 75 00 

Hock Adam 20 00 

Hengel Geo 75 00 

Hoiakins Stephen 15 00 

Hinkle Geo 20 00 

Heineman Henry 125 00 

Harkcom Susan 25 00 

Heckemire G 150 00 

Has Mrs 17 00 

Hoffman Mrs. C. 55 00 

Hart Frank 100 00 

Hohiser Bridget 150 00 

Hosic Z 75 00 

Hammor Chas SO 00 

Herchenreader Jacob 20 00 

Heebling Frank 100 00 

Hune Hilgard 10 00 

Haling Wm 80 00 

Harington 1 75 00 

Herron Owen 120 00 

Hauley Hannah 10 00 

Hensinger Henry 10 00 

Haas Fred ' 60 00 

Jenny George 50 00 

Joyce Mrs. Weney 20 00 

Kerr R. H 50 00 

Kilkany Thos 25 00 

Kenneweg Christ 50 00 

Kemler Geo 10 00 

Kurtz Adam 50 00 

Kress Madaline 40 00 

Kaser Elliott 20 00 

Kress Andrew 175 00 



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Keenan Peter $ 100 00 

Keffer Sophia 10 00 

Korobel John 30 00 

Kersh Louis 200 00 

Kilmayer Ferd 170 lO 

Klein Jose 170 00 

Knochel Jac , . 200 00 

Kelmer Christ 125 00 

Ketterley Geo 150 > 

Knochel Jacob 70 00 

Kemler Martin 100 00 

Killion Andreas 20 00 

Kerch Nic 150 00 

Kaiser Nic 150 00 

Killion Mrs. B 30 00 

Kress Geo 220 00 

Krotz M 200 00 

Klein Fred 75 00 

Kehlmeyer Wm 120 00 

Kline Jacob 30 00 

Klasse Rudolph 80 ( 

Kress Rhinehart 100 00 

Keegan Catharine 10 00 

Lynch Daniel 250 00 

Lampus Theo 150 00 

Link Frank 60 00 

Lippert Jacob 100 00 

Lehr Barb 125 00 

Leser Geo 90 00 

Lapp Mary 35 00 

Lonie Henry 10 00 

Lentz John 225 00 

Laughern Margaret 15 00 

Lerch Philip 50 00 

Loukoup Albert 40 00 

Luther Louis 150 00 

Lauer Nic •. . . . 60 00 

Lepold Henry 200 00 

Lafiferty John 170 00 

Loefelbein Wm 40 00 

Laufman Elizabeth 18 00 

Luka Henry 10 00 

Luckaus Nic 15 00 

Logan Elizabeth 35 00 

Link Frank 50 00 

Lauer Valentine 75 00 

Leute John 75 00 

Lewis Daniel 145 00 

Leety Rudolph 50 00 

Lippert Fred 50 00 

Link Mary 20 00 

Linderman Fred 50 00 

Lippert Henry 25 00 

McGuire Mrs. Sarah 300 00 

Mclllanney Samuel 110 00 



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Metz Anton $ 300 00 

Murphy E. D. 100 00 

Mauer Jos 100 00 

Merrion Jos 225 OO 

Miller John 150 00 

Miller Christ . . 125 00 

Mitchell Mary J 75 00 

Martin Jacob 170 00 

Minehart Henry 75 00 

Miner Christ 25 00 

Mason Mrs. Margaret 90 00 

Mutler Wm 75 00 

Meyer John 65 00 

Mechlenberg A 200 00 

Mangold Benj 20 00 

M ager Wm 20 00 

McKaver Eliza 20 00 

Murphy Mrs. Bridget 20 00 

McCoy. Mary ' 25 00 

Marra Hartley 25 00 

McCaskey John 50 00 

McCormick Thos 100 00 

Miser Jos 100 00 

McCabe Mrs. B 100 00 

Matthews Andrew 35 00 

Miller H. G '. 100 00 

Melrey Catharine 20 00 

Morgan Catharine 45 00 

Mattern Christ : 200 00 

Miller John 105 00 

Magel Heniy F 60 00 

Miller Adam. 150 00 

Michlish John 100 00 

Miller Fred 140 00 

Manning John 100 00 

Markham Ann 200 00 

Miller Adam 30 00 

Metzgar August 25 00 

McNally Bridget 10 00 

Miller Elna 150 00 

Mull Chris 10 00 

Moore Sarah 10 00 

Merriman J. W 100 00 

McKee W. R 50 00 

Murry Ann 10 00 

Noll Elizabeth 25 00 

Nickola Mrs 20 00 

Naglefield D 50 00 

Neichner John 25 00 

Nebel John 100 00 

Noel Marzella 60 00 

Nanz John 100 00 

Neisner John 50 00 

Negley Mrs. R 20 00 

Opperman Jos. 65 00 



Ober :fiJ'ickolas | 200' 00 

Oast Wnl . . , 20 00 

Ortlieb Martin. ... 100 00 

Och Jos 60 00 

Otte Christian H , . 300 GC 

Obe Jane 40 OO 

Ortli Fred 70 00 

O'Brian John 50 00 

Paul Michael 150 GO 

Phillips Mr 50 OO 

Peterines Val. 300 00 

Pauler Franz 100 00 

Pannier Gust 300 00 

Puefer John 50 OO" 

Pilkinton Mrs 30 00 

Price Al 300 00 

Peterson Wm 50 OO 

Parmier Julius 25 00 

Phillips John ' 50 00 

Patterson Isabella , 50 0G» 

Payton Owen 50 00 

Piefer Geo 50 00 

Payton John 50 OO 

Parkinson John 70 00 

Rosenkranz Jacob 100 00 

Rabig Jos 150 00 

Rahm Casper 100 00 

Roslauf Mrs. Moritz 100 00 

Riuekopf August 200 OO 

Reimensnyder Mary. .... 40 00 

Rensland Henry 25 00 

Rief Fred 10 00 

Rice Margaret 100 00 

Rinn Jacol. 200 00 

Reig Frank 50 00 

Richtner Nicholas 100 00 

Reese Elila 20 00 

Richey Dr 200 00 

Reno R. R 320 00 

Reno Frank 75 00 

Reiswick Magdela 10 00 

Rea Hans 1>. 00 

Rondels Mrs 5 00 

Robinson Mrs. Mary 50M)0 

Rahree Catharine 50 00 

Serlich Wm 20 OJ 

Sauer Peter 100 00 

Schnetz A 175 00 

Bpielmeyer John 175 00 

Steemer Mary 60 00 

Streidenberger Gallus 70 00 

Schafer Conran 100 00 

Seifert Jacob 150 00 

Schaffer Ludwig 200 00 



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Sontag Conrad. , , , $ 150 00 

Seaman Jos ■. '. 150 00 

Sherriug John 100 00 

Selter Clias ,, 35 00 

Sims Wm. H 250 00 

Sweitzer Margaret ■. ., 100 00 

Scherer Henry 300 00 

Schelhovey Jacob 10 00 

Shelhorst Henry 75 00 

Shenk Fred 100 00 

Snider Henry 50 00 

Schmidt Geo 100 00 

Schlieger John 20 00 

Shupkagle Jacob , 10 00 

Smeder George, Mrs. and Children 110 00 

Shodle Mrs. Mary. . , 40 00 

Schutz John 50 00 

Simmel Jos 20 00 

Satter Erail 190 00 

Sturn Jacob 150 00 

Seitz Wm 10 00 

Sohaffer John 90 00 

Shirmer Jos 10 00 

Saurbier Anton 100 00 

Schleiper Chas 50 00 

Siedan Fred 300 00 

Schaufif John 135 00 

Stickle August 125 00 

Shumaker Wm 200 00 

Schultz Fred 30 00 

Schnieder Andreas 100 00 

Slagel Henry 50 00 

Schlatter Mr. and Mrs 370 00 

Schnepper Mena , 40 00 

Schaifer Mrs. Henry 170 00 

Shill Frank 50 00 

Schmidt Philip 50 00 

Sandpos Adolph 60 00 

Summendinger Mrsi C » 35 00 

Schomer And 35 00 

Shield Ann > 15 OO 

Spath Andrew 100 00 

Schneffer Theresa 20 00 

Seneil E 50 00 

StoU Bernhard ,, 25 00 

Steinkamp F , . . : 15 00 

Sutton Ellen SO 00 

Savill Jennie , , . . 50 00 

Sch-jman Fred 100 00 

Smith John 75 00 

Thumer Henry , 120 00 

Tower Martin 100 00 

Tirry May 30 00 

Toomey John 10 00 

Tschume Samuel 300 00 

Trapica Josephine 70 00 

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Trauer Hugli f 10 00 

Thompson Jos 150 00 

Thompson A 100 00 

Tuswitte Call 20 00 

Trimble G. W 200 00 

Voegely Gotlieb 95 00 

Voegler Martin 100 00 

Volpert Frank 50 00 

Vey Constantine 200 Of) 

Vandivinder Mrs 100 00 

Vogel Margaret 85 00 

Vinwinkle Wm 75 00 

Webb E 10 00 

Wagner Henry, East Street 100 00 

Wasner Daniel 30 00 

Wood Mary Ann 20 O't 

Wochels G 15 00 

Wurtz 10 00 

Weis Jos 150 00 

Winkle Fred 35 00 

Winkler John 15 00 

Weidner John 250 00 

Walters John 45 00 

Weir Charles 250 00 

Walther J. G 100 00 

Winkhaus Richard 100 00 

Wagner Henry, Chestnut Street 100 00 

Wolf Jacob 75 00 

Weukler Mary 115 00 

Wicht John 50 00 

Walter Nic ... 75 00 

Whitman Wm 100 00 

Wolf Philip 100 00 

Wihoski Mrs 40 00 

Wolf Wm 10 00 

Williams Stephen 30 00 

Wickline Edward 10 00 

Wallroth Mrs 100 00 

Walther Mrs. Michael 50 00 

Wiegand Rich 60 00 

Wiesner John 50 00 

Wiedner V'idus 130 00 

Williams Wm 10 00 

Wiedner Mrs. John 100 00 

Weigman Jos 70 00 

Yunt John 10 00 

Yerner Thomas 100 00 

Yunt Alfred 100 00 

Younginger Matthias 50 00 

Zimmerly John 200 00 

Zeigler Chas 40 00 

Zillocks Catharine 175 00 



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Zelmaii Adam I 70 00 

Zink Amelia 20 00 

Ladies' Relief Society of Pittsburgh 763 54 

" " " Allegheny 599 76 

Deposited for the benefit of 

Geo. Huber 350 00 

Susan Conlon 350 00 

]Mena Schnepper 350- 00 

John Metzler 350 00 

Total $45,103 00 



BILLS PAID. 

Caldwell James & Co $151 94 

Erwin A. W 20 33 

Boggs & Buhl 58 00 

Semple Wm , 83 24 

Oroatzinger E 30 85 

<Jgden & Vance (printing, including this Report) 195 00 

Advertising 60 00 

Richter J (rations for soldiers) 158 60 

Stevenson G. W. & Bro 3 60 

Hauling \.... 10 00 

Postage 33 50 

Veiock & Long 9 35 

Paid to Sufferers by Ninth Ward Collector 11 13 

Spratt Mrs, M, (blank books) 4 00 

Swager Jacob (rations for soldiers) 7 30 

Kitchen & Beggs ^ 4 00 

E. Wilson, (assistance) 20 00 

H. K. Tyler 20 00 

Incidentals 35 37 

Lynch N. J 6 30 

Total $933 10 



PAID FOR BURYING THE DEAD. 

Fairman & Co $637 85 

Fairman & Vogt 881 51 

Herman Henry 387 60 

Taggart J. J. & Bro 75 00 

McCaskey & McChestney 139 00 

Lepold Henry 33 00 

Conlon Neal 96 iO 

Klages Albert 5 CO 

Ley Henry • 121 00 

Myers Jos. & Son 300 78 

Hambert Mrs 136 60 

Total, $2, 603 34 



52 . . 

ABTICLES DISTRIBTTTED. 

In addition to the ctisli given, the following articles were 
distributed to the Sufferers in the District north of the Monon- 
gahela and Ohio Rivers. 

Coats 138 

Pants, pairs 1 69 

Vests - 160 

Boots and Slioes^ pairs - 184 

Hats ; 146 

Shirts 199 

Drawers, pairs - 32 

Ladies' Dresses 263 

" Skirts 123 

" Waists 57 

" Sacks 36 

Underwear 242 

Stockings, pairs 312 

Shawls 37 

Bed Comforts 16 

Bed Quilts 8 

Bed Sheets 33 

Bed Ticks 23 

Pillow Cases 33 

Pillows 3 

Blankets 5 

Canton Flannels, yards 55 

Woolen " " 160 

Muslin, yards 859 

Prints 223 

Towels 10 

Dishes, one wagon load. . 

Bonnets 10 

Childrens' Suits, complete 127 

Cloaks 2 

Ticking, yards 110 

Aprons . . 6 

Furniture to the value of $100 00 



REPORT 

OB' THB 

South Side poMMiTTEE, 

FOR * H B 

Eelifif Of !liB Mem liy tie FM, Jnlf 26, 1874. 



E. IrL. IDOKTEKOO, OtLQ-irman. 



COMMITTEE. 



DANIEL BULFORD, S. S. BOGGS, G. R. NEELD, 

J. P. HERSHBERGER^ JOHN GILFILLAN. 



The territory included in this district embraces all that por' 
lion of Allegheny County lying south of the Ohio and Monon- 
gahela Rivers. The greatest loss of life and property was ex*- 
perienced on Saw Mill Run and its tributaries. 

Much loss was suffered by persons dwelling in the vicinity 
of Beck's Run, CarapbelPs Run, Whiskey Run, Chartiers 
Creek, Painter's Run and McLaughlin's Run. 

No correct estimate can be made of the loss in property 
sHistained by this calamitous flood ^ no report being made to 
this Committee of public losses in bridges swept away, and 
streets and highways damaged, but from the reports of the 
Street Commissioner and County Commissioners We infer that 
the loss was a most serious one. 

The losses in private propert}'^ reported to this Committee 
amount in the aggregate to more than $250,000. A large por- 
tion of this loss falls on those who are least able to bear it — 
persons in limited circumstances. Some lost all that they had 
and were left in utter destitution. 

Besides the cash relief given, as reported, the Com- 

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mittee distributed Suits of Men and Boy's Clothing, and pairs 
of Shoes of all sizes, about 1 00 Bed Comforts, Bed Tickings, 
Sheets and Pillow Cases, besides a large quantity of miscella- 
neous articles which had been donated to the Committee. 

Messrs, Reese Owens & Co. donated 50 Sugar Cured 
HamSy which were distributed to the needy poor. J, N. 
Thackery donated goods to the value of $5. Rei&ick & Co.,i 
gave an order for furniture, which order was honored and the 
goods distributed. 

Under direction of a Committee of Ladies, consisting of 
Miss Nettie Caruahan (since deceased), Miss Maggie Deans, 
Mrs. Dr. Stephenson, Mrs. Weaver and others, the dry goods 
were distributed to the needy. The shoes \nd clothing were 
given out under the direction of Daniel Bulford and Rev. J. L. 
Deans. 

Through the kindness of the officers of the Odd Fellows' 
Lodge, the Committee were allowed the free use of a num- 
ber of rooms in their very comfortable building so long as 
needful. 

With the highest appreciation of the great liberality and 
sympathy manifested by the public in helping on this good 
work, we close our report, thankful to God that he prompted 
men to respond so generously when their fellow men were in so 
great need of assistance. 

E. R. DONEHOO, Chairman, 

South Side Relief Committee. 



f(elief Gj^i'ciiited by tl\e doir|i]qittee. 

(SOUTH SIDE.) 



Wm. Vanicha $100 00 

Joseph Vanicka 15 00 

Emma Coras 40 00 

Mary Wilkins 20 00 

Ed Hughes ;; 5 00 

Wm. Watson ....■.•.-... 15 00 

Fielding Gray .1 75 00 

James McCardle 30 00 

Henry Shock 40 00 

Wm. Evans .". 40 00 

Anthony Thompson • 15 00 

Wm. Beach 3 00 

Margaret O'Keill 150 00 

Ellen Laferty 30 00 

David Carr 80 00 

George Jones 135 00 

Patrick Rov?an 30 00 

Nancy Hopkins 100 00 

M. Lenman 20 00 

Thos. Williams 35 00 

J. Hoover 90 00 

Grace Vaxendale 15 00 

Charles Huff 30 00 

Stephen Sample 100 00 

Joseph Bain 7 00 

Margaret Hampsey 18 00 

Neely Leonard 10 00 

Thos. Barrett 5 00 

Phihp Reilly 8 00 

Edward Raferty 20 00 

Henry Smith. .'. 75 00 

Mary Steiner 35 00 

Mary Patterson 30 00 

Margaret McCarty 20 00 

Michael Laffey ■. 10 00 

Wm. Lightholder 10 00 

Hannah Boag 40 00 

Isaiah Cain 8 00 

Jeremiah Cain 8 00 

Alice Linton 15 00 

Ann Linton 15 00 

Thomas Holland 15 00 

John Bennett 15 00 

Hugh O'Donnell 75 Ou 

James Carleton 50 00 

Wm. Puich 18 00 

Daniel Peacock ^ 20 00 



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Wm. Barum $ 20 0(5 

Elizabeth Neal 15 00 

Jos. Pearson ^ ^ 45 00 

Peter Adams ; ...... 8 00 

John Lafferty 15 00 

Jos. Nolin. 10 00 

B. Watkifls 15 00 

Catharine Watkins 25 00 

Enoch Lawton 15 00 

Michael Nauman 100 00 

Rebecca Blair 5 00 

Peter Kuhns 15 00 

R. Schtieider 50 00 

C. Schneider .• 50 00 

W. Zeigler 30 00 

G. Gruber 25 00 

Abraham Wetzel. 20 00 

Geo. Luellen ... 5 CO 

Wm. Hardwick 25 00 

Wm. Smith 50 00 

James Johnson 10 00 

D.ivid McLone 20 00 

Wm. Stevenson 245 00 

John Short 15 00 

John Poxou 10 00 

Rudolph Moore 10 00 

James McVey 10 00 

B. Hampsey 10 00 

P. Callahan 28 00 

John Hindmarch 15 00 

John Cartwright 20 00 

James Grogan 40 00 

John Cancannon 50 00 

Allen Schamp , 5 00 

James E'elson 25 00 

Joseph Dane 40 00 

Matthew McBride 20 00 

John Duulinson '. 20 00 

Patrick Norton 20 00 

Thos. Welsh 15 00 

H. Staney 5 00 

Richard >i artin 15 00 

Henry Fniith : - 10 00 

B. Cluneii 5 00 

Margaret McFarlaud 100 ' 

Elizabeth Chrissisoh 10 00 

James Workman 10 00 

Timothy Bennett 75 00 

John T. Smith 20 00 

W. Courans ' 15 00 

Wm. Archibald 125 00 

P. Monaghan 30 00 

M. Zeigler 30 00 

Hannah Gettings 15 00 

John Clumey 40 00 

P. C. Carnahan 80 00 

Robert Beadlin ". 40 00 

Margaret Liugafelt 15 00 



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Hamiah Holfiss $ B OD 

*Wm. Brazil! • . . . . 10 00 

Hannah Ranife. • . .... ..... . . . . 15 00 

Lena Beaver - 10 00 

Hester Braiiner.^ ..-...-. -,-,,,-.,^.,, ..,,.»,. 5 00 

Isaac Morgan -. — ,^....-, ^■. 10 00 

Nancy A. Gittings ..^ >-. 5 00 

George Gilmore, Jr ■, -. .....,.., ,, . 5 00 

•George Gilmore, Sr. .. ., •. .- .-. 20 00 

Henry House .^ >..-.,,.,,..'..>..,... 5 00 

'Catharine Lamb w TO 00 

Wm. Schuck -...,- 'S.'i 00 

H. Strause - ^ 25 00 

James Campbell •. ^ ^ ■. 75 OD 

'George Archibald. .*>.-. ,.,-. ^ 10 00 

-George Perry, Jr , .^ .-. . .^ . . . .^ ^ ., 5 00 

Peter Costar ^ ^ . . . , . 8 00 

Henry Blue 10 00 

Adam Gries 10 00 

"Charles Greis , 10 00 

James Ryan. 10 00 

Margaret Nelson . ... 100 00 

S. Richards , 15 00 

Alex. Adamson ; , 20 00 

T. Stanford 5 00 

Ab. Orris 10 00 

Ed Ord 15 00 

Rosanna Lutz 100 00 

Sarah McCulloch 40 00 

Frank McCulloch 40 00 

Esther Wilson . . • 500 

H. Yardley 15 ( 

John Grisenger 5 O'O 

Mary Jones ' 40 00 

Rose McMurry 10 00 

Catharine Dooling '35 00 

William Adams 100 00 

Wm. Thorn WO 00 

Thomas Walton 100 00 

Daniel Sharp 10 00 

Matthew Green 10 (lO 

Henry Jackson . ... .......... iO Ot) 

Wm. Peters 10 00 

Jos. Thomson 30 00 

Thos. Wy.se '. . 15 00 

Charlotte Smith ..;... 10 00 

Bridget Shaughnessey , 5 00 

Daniel Johnston ., . . 5 O'O 

Adam Keru 20 00 

Michael Keru 20 00 

Rose Galaher 5 00 

Christopher Stratton. . . 150 00 

Agnes Laughlin — 15 00 

Margaret Neeld 3 00 

Benj. Chambers 10 00 

George Evans 40 00 

Bridget O'Doud 5(0 

Wm. Zeigler 25 00 

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m ary Snedden f 35 00 

John Trump 30 00 

George Fenton 5 00 

Eli Euscoe 10 00 

Geo. Phillips 60 00 

Margaret Kinney 50 OO 

Michael McGuire ^ 35 00 

John Moreland .' 85 00 

John Williams 4.0 00 

S. Richarcls 7 OO 

George Alsop 30 00 

Wm. Bennett 15 00 

Benj. Beadlin 15 Oi) 

John Thompson 15 00 

Andrew Williamson 15 00 

Wm. Brown 15 00 

Wm. Gillespie 5 00 

Samuel Taylor 10 00 

Wm. Huey 100 00 

James Vaughn 15 00 

Mary McGrlinchy , 20 (.0 

James Breen 1 00 

Thomas Breen 10 00 

Ann Young 20 00 

F. X. Walters 75 00 

John JNeal 10 00 

Jacob Straub 15 00 

John Phillips 5 OO 

W. Zeigler 65 00 

S. Scott 30 00 

W. Martin 20 00 

Louis Astori 60 00 

Eliza Sullivan .- 80 00 

Dan McCartney 40 00 

Frank Rightmyer 75 OO 

John Young 20 Oi) 

Barney Brookly 20 00 

Theobold Frick 20 00 

Soloman True 5 00 

William Burtt 80 00 

Charles Shauer 75 00 

George Orris 15 00 

Thos.' Strang ". 85 00 

Bridget Dillon 85 (.0 

Thomas Campbell 10 00 

Charles. Turnblazer 25 00 

W. Clellan 25 00 

George Cray 20 00 

Jane Kelly. 5 00 

J ohn Smithly 75 00 

Elizabeth Dalzell - . 85 00 

El. Smallwood 10 00 

Philip Somers 85 00 

Wm. Eisenhart 5 00 

James Gray 15 00 

David Moran 85 00 

John Fogle 5 00 

Michael Riley 5 00 



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James Watson $ 10 (yO 

Mary Curran 85 00 

Cleorge Thomas 10 00 

Peter McNulty 10 00 

Conrad Staub 15 00 

James Norris 35 00 

Sarah WiHiams 40 00 

Wm. Boivser... 20 00 

Wm. Strahan 15 00 

Jane Martin 20 00 

Wm, Taylor 200 00 

W. R. Zeigler 350 00 

John Trimble 150 00 

Henry Clupper 50 00 

Milton Douglass 50 00 

Andrew McMillen 75 00 

Bartley Laffey ,. 20 00 

Margaret Carmichael '. 15 00 

John Finety 10 00 

Ellen Cody 75 00 

Ceorge Fitzgerald 10 00 

Emily Davis 10 00 

Damon Fleckerstine 20 00 

Philip Kocher 40 00 

John Biby 20 OO 

Matthew Neil : 30 GO 

James McGlinchy 25 00 

James Carnahan 25 00 

Louis Barum 25 00 

Jos; Berry 30 00 

Philip Froelich 100 00 

Michael Hoover 25 00 

David Richardson 15 00 

C. M. Zeigler 25 00 

Sh. Lovin 20 00 

D. C. Bower 40 00 

John Brown 40 00 

John McMillen 50 00 

Thomas McMillan 40 00 

John L. Poellett 30 00 

Jacob Morloch 25 00 

Adam Spohn 100 00 

Wilson Reed 30 00 

Jenkins Bowen 20 00 

Mary Richards 10 00 

D. H. Andrews 35 00 

Evan WiUiams 10 00 

August Launder 35 00 

John Harris 30 00 

John Rodgers 30 00 

SI. Wilson 25 00 

David Jones 25 00 

01. Trainey 25 00 

John Laufman 35 00 

Wm. Messer 40 00 

David Short 30 00 

Alex. Morgan 50 00 

John Martin .' 50 00 



Conrad Baker , I 35" 00 

Margaret Jones ........**,.., 50019 

James Long • ^ - - ... - * ^5 00 

Peter Trast 40 00 

f'eter Engel ....,...,..., 3 OO 

Wm. Metcalf 35 00 

W m . C wan 3 5 OO 

tl. M. Kerr 40 OO 

W. C. Reed 75 00 

Richard Williams. 5 00 

Hugh Carroll 40 00 

M. McLaughlin 35 OO 

Oliver Fitch 35 00 

Jos. Taylor..... 200 00 

tlobert Gray 20 00 

Mai-y Mahon 40 00 

W. Lynch - 35 00 

Wilson Douglass 25 00 

Hart Howe 25 00 

Samuel Davis 12 00 

August Mittknowsky 15 00 



STATEMENT OF EXPENDITURES, 

J3y Order of the General Committee. 
Goods Purchased. 

;fe:aufman, Oppenheimer & Co., Clothing $647 80 

G. Albree & Son, Shoes 480 90 

G. B. Joianston & Co., Dry Goods 274 69 

J. P. Vierheller, Dry Goods 43 84 

M. Bakerj Provisions 7 35 

W. Kossler* Hardware 64 73 

J, N. Thackery, Stationery. 15 50 

Total $1,583 30 

Burials. 

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Wallace & Erwin $200 00 

T. P. Hershberger 810 00 

j. Voelker & Son 41 00 

Pairman & Co * 40 00 



Total * , . . » i , . 4 i . $591 00 

MiSCEIiLANEOUS. ^ 

Mrs. Carnalian, Use of room $^5 00 

Miss Dean, attendance at rooms 25 00 

Sundries — Stationery, Expressage, etc 30 75 

Cash Paid before Warrant Book received 75 00 

Total $155 75 



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EEOAPITULATIOE" 

• Of Expenditures of the South Side. 

Cash Paid Sufferers $9,710 00 

" forM'dse , 1,533 30 

" " Funerals 59100 

'* " Miscellaneous 155 75 

Total $11,990 05 

E. R. DONEHOO, 

Ghairman Belief Committee, South Side, 



EEC A PIT UL ATION 

Op all Expenditures. 



Amount of Cash paid Sufferers from the Office in Allegheny, $45,102 00 

Bills paid for Merchandise in Allegheny 927 12 

" " Burying the Dead, in Allegheny. .■ 2,608 34 

Paid out by Rev. Donehoo, on the South Side 11,990 05 

Donation to Allegheny Ladies' Relief Society 599 76 

" Pittsburgh " " " 763 54 

Deposited for the benefit of the Orphan Children 1,400 00 

Total $63,395 81 

JOHN A. MYLER, 

Secretary. 



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